Describes the development, problems and values of an inservice course in Childrens Literature that combined independent viewing with a few on-campus sessions. (RB)

Suggests that skills need not be taught in isolation for they will be learned if the student has sufficient motivation. Suggests that teacher set in motion a reading, writing, speaking, listening and rewriting program with the ultimate goal of publication. Includes examples of the work of some of her own students. (RB)

Traces the trends in reading instruction, and proposes that reading be taught according to the Quantity Reading Method in which students are given a brief course in reading skills, followed by opportunities to read widely and quantitatively. References. (VJ)

Under a feasibility grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare for a Model Elementary Teacher Education Program (METEP), the University of Massachusetts' School of Education set up a language arts education program based on performance criteria, in that it is the performance of the student that is crucial, not the method…

Sponsored by the Committee on Research, National Council of Teachers of English. (Author/RD)

Address delivered at the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Seminar at San Fernando Valley State College, Los Angeles, California, June 29-July 3, 1970. (DS)

Describes how 18 teachers (in Wayland, Massachusetts), working with students at a variety of reading levels in third through sixth grades, taught reading via paperback books. (SW)

Describes a University of Idaho pilot program in communication skills (at McSorley School, Lewiston, Idaho) enabling first and second graders to dictate narrations about their experiences into cassette recorders. (SW)

A paper presented at annual convention of Canadian Council of Teachers of English (3rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 1970). (Editor/RD)

This article presents brief summaries of the 114 dissertations completed by Ed.D and Ph.D. candidates at Indiana University in the English Language Arts between 1941 and 1970. (MM)