Children will write well only when they speak in their own voices about their own concerns. (DD)

Presents the value of stories, especially fairy tales, as ways of both tutoring and expressing the imaginative and intuitive side of the personality. (DD)

Suggests ways that preservice and inservice training might help language arts teachers develop teaching strategies which rely on questions to involve children in purposeful verbal activity. (DD)

Presents the conditions necessary to stimulate creative writing in school classrooms. (AA)

Discusses some of the best current books dealing with handicapped children. (DD)

Practicing dictionary skills helps kids discover something old, something new and something borrowed about our language's history. (Editor)

Contains five lists of objects beginning with the letters "A" through "Z" which provide examples of ways to stimulate all five of a child's senses. (DD)

A week-by-week readiness program for preschool and early primary children. (Editor)

A monthly exchange of tips, projects, ideas and resources. (Editor)

Presents ten categories which illustrate the range of the uses of language, and discusses implications for instruction. (DD)

Suggests that values clarifying procedures implemented within the language arts program can improve children's self-image and their attitude toward reading and other language arts skills. Gives examples of values strategies. (JM)

Students' collection of divorce stories were the focus of this writing project. Sample stories are included. (HOD)

Provides sample classroom exercises to develop middle school and high school youngsters' sensitivity to language skills, spelling, and grammar. Includes riddles, puns, puzzles, and other games drawn from J. Shipley's "Word Play." (JG)

Advocating the whole language philosophy as an approach which makes language learning easy and fun for hearing-impaired children, activities involving reading favorite books, shared reading, and rewriting stories wherein new words and sentence structures are introduced in the context of the whole story or poem. (CB)