This book presents a framework for teaching skills that reflects new research on thinking, teaching for understanding, and instruction in the language arts and content areas at all levels. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 presents the framework for teaching the language arts as thinking--topics covered are learning, organizational…

A discussion is presented of a semester-long collaborative project in whole language at the college level. Eight preservice teachers, seven inservice teachers, a school principal, and a university instructor worked together in Friday afternoon seminars. This paper gives an overview of multiple theoretical foundations: learning theory, critical…

The book describes Learning to Read through the Arts (LTRTA), a curriculum combining art activities with writing and reading in small group workshops. The methodology of LTRTA has been applied and modified to work with different groups of students: perceptually impaired, reading disabled, and gifted students. Workshops are offered in mixed media,…

A product of the Wisconsin Writing Project, this guide for teachers is intended to offer a fresh focus for lesson plans, give students more responsibility for their own learning, provide direction for student involvement in the curriculum, and gain community support for the school, all by means of a project to study and write about local history.…

Instructions are provided for constructing a learning center on littering. Activity sheets (focusing on words, spelling, story order, and art) which may be duplicated for use with the center and lists of resource materials are also provided. These materials include resources for teachers, a list of litter/ecology books for students, and a list of…

Instructions are provided for constructing a learning center on littering. Activity sheets (pictures and poems) which may be duplicated for use with the center and lists of environmental, economic, and energy concepts to be fostered through class activities and discussions are also provided. An integral part of the center is the book "Let's…

The handbook, intended for use as a guide for special education teachers, presents an overview of language arts and communication skills. Instructional considerations and teaching ideas (objectives and activities) are presented for three major types of skills: (1) receptive language arts (listening skills, reading, phonics, sight vocabulary,…

Describes the "Go" reading program which improves reading skills of fourth graders in four different language arts areas. (RB)

Discusses the possibility of censorship of children's and adolescent's books and offers concrete suggestions for preventing or combatting such censorship. (TO)

The middle school curriculum outlined in this guide places writing at the hub of the language arts program, with the other areas of English instruction arranged around it so that no area is studied in isolation. Literary genres, for example, are viewed as the written record of peoples' thoughts, and vocabulary study includes maintaining a…

Twenty good spellers and 20 poor spellers at each grade level from two to five participated in a study of morphological and orthographic spelling pattern abstraction. Subjects completed a multiple choice test of nonsense words, a multiple choice test of real words, and a dictation test of nonsense words. Both groups showed developmental trends in…

Concept learning and synectic strategies must be incorporated into the language arts curriculum to ensure concept development. (JH)

A good children's book is an exciting alternate language arts textbook. (JH)