This textbook book is an English course intended for use during the seventh and eighth grades and provides for study along both lines of language work, grammar and composition. The book includes a section on dictionary use. The final chapter is devoted to word analysis and was designed especially for the benefit of that great majority of grammar…

This textbook is designed to meet all the requirements for language teaching in the second school year. It contains exercises in spelling, transcription, dictation, and the rapid recognition of words frequently met in the young pupil's reading, as well as illustrated short stories and suggestions for conversation lessons.

Discusses a unit in which students rewrite Ray Bradbury's short stories into short plays, emphasizing the importance of dialog. (RB)

Examines a program in which college students visited and taught creative dramatics to elementary school students. (RB)

Presents a rationale for teaching creative dramatics and suggests that it can be an important avenue for self-exploration and discovery since it involves the self physically and emotionally, as well as verbally and cognitively. (RB)

Reports on a study to determine the effect of creative drama on the role playing skills of sixth graders. (RB)

Provides a brief sketch on the teaching of creative dramatics in the elementary school and reviews fourteen ERIC documents which deal with this subject. (RB)

Urges classroom teachers to examine the current language research and dialect discoveries in order to teach effectively.

Describes how childrens' writing activities provide entries for their own spelling dictionaries. (GB)

Presents a summary of language arts research relative to early childhood education. (TO)

Describes two courses designed to teach basic language arts skills, one involving special admission students at a university and the other involving soldiers. (TO)

The design of a computer-assisted instruction language arts curriculum for the deaf is discussed. (DB)