The combination of intelligence with measures of related academic success self-concepts accounted for more achievement variance than did intelligence alone for the content areas of reading, language, and mathematics. Achievement was related to academic self-concept, but not to physical maturity, peer relations, or school adaptiveness…

Suggests activities that sharpen sensory awareness in prose and poetry instruction; relates some of the exercises to specific literary texts. (MAI)

Results indicate that exposure to individualized instruction had a favorable impact on attitudes of fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade pupils. (JMF)

Presents the characteristics of the more popular spelling theories, describes how the optimal spelling system would work, reviews recent research on spelling, and draws implications for the teaching of spelling. (DD)

Describes how twelve wordless picture books can be used to encourage the development of children's writing skills. (DD)

Urges the inclusion in planning and in-service education programs of effective ways teachers can interact with parents and students to help them understand the English language arts program. (DD)

Reviews several syntactic studies of children's reading comprehension and suggests teaching methods for promoting sentence comprehension in context. (DD)

Describes how to use a "natural language" technique that makes use of stories that contain predictable language patterns (such as those with words that are repeated or that rhyme) in teaching beginning reading. (MKM)

Describes the steps taken by a fourth grade teacher and her students which resulted in the publication of a guidebook to metropolitan Denver. (DD)

Discusses flannel board stories, prop stories, puppet stories, chalk talks, storytelling through photographs, sound stories, music stories, "cut" stories, and Origami stories. (DD)

Makes eight suggestions on how to keep abreast of language arts teaching techniques, methods, and materials; provides evaluative criteria for language arts materials. (DD)

Suggests ways teachers can keep abreast of professionally relevant techniques, research, and ideas. (DD)

Some 60 activities in language arts for use in the out-of-doors are described. Categories for these middle school activities include oral activities, factual writing, fictional writing, and poetry. (JC)

Mind and mood pictures help students "see" reason in their writing. (Editor)