Career education has become an integral part of the regular classroom curriculum. Its many facets blend well with whatever topic, subject area, or pupil interest is being studied. Discusses learning activities that are active instructional strategies with built-in flexibility which can be adapted for students, syllabus, school, and community.…

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Argues that the English language arts can play a major role in arriving at practical coherence in school curricula because of the unique nature of the discipline and the unique integrative role of language in human experience. Discusses literature in interdisciplinary English and the contributions of English to interdisciplinary curriculum. (SR)

Discusses 44 recently published poetry collections, noting ways teachers can help children deepen their enjoyment of poetry by helping them become aware of the subtle things poets do. Uses the concept of rhythm to organize the books, believing that rhythm gives poetry its feeling of movement. (SR)

Muses on curriculum reform and standards. Proposes 12 possible courses (36 credits) which could be required for certification of elementary school teachers. (PA)

Describes a program to develop students' oral language skills, a critical component of language arts in the preschool through sixth-grade curriculum. States that, for each level, a master list was comprised to help teachers discuss the creation of a continuum of oral language objectives. Finds the program made teachers, parents, and students…

Illustrates the benefits and challenges of team-teaching in a multi-age classroom by describing one school's efforts at implementing language arts instruction within an interdisciplinary approach. Discusses initiating multi-age grouping and the advantages and challenges of multi-age classrooms. Offers recommendations. (SR)

Describes a career awareness unit for middle school language arts students which focuses on the special uses of language found in different professions. (SR)

Describes the integration of information literacy pedagogy into the literacy curriculum of a teacher education program in Canada. Highlights include constructing a framework of information literacy pedagogy; collaboration with teacher librarians; revising a language arts methods course to include information literacy instruction; and what students…

Tells the story of one English department's struggle over curriculum controversies and the implications of that struggle for the integrity of specific teachers' classroom curriculum and the literary education of their students. (TB)

Explains a method for assisting preservice and new teachers in their understanding of James Moffett and Betty Jane Wagner's classic work, "Student Centered Language Arts, K-12" (1992). (TB)

Pragmatic language awareness contributes to an integrated language arts curriculum for literacy acquisition. Teaching pragmatic awareness includes encouraging readers to devote conscious attention to metalinguistic aspects of text by thinking and talking about the message functions that the text uses. Lists seven approaches for teaching pragmatic…

Describes the Dream Vacation project, part of the Tech Prep Applied Communications curriculum for high school students, which is carried out in collaborative teams. Shows how the project integrates the language arts while developing communication, technical writing, and performance skills. Notes that the project uses and develops students'…

Identifies the elements of a successful districtwide reading-improvement program: (1) a strong central-office advocate; (2) an emphasis on phonemic awareness; (3) an early intervention program; (4) a concentration on language arts in the primary grades; (5) a basal-language-arts program; (6) a variety of assessment strategies; (7) a strong…

This article discusses how a social studies teacher taught her middle school students about the components of an opera and prepared her students for putting on an opera. The development of the opera and how the opera training related to the social studies, language arts, and music curriculum are addressed. (Contains 1 reference.) (CR)