Suggests ways of using teacher-produced photographs in English and language-arts classrooms. Offers examples of how a series of pictures was used and how students responded. (RL)

Reports on a study in which the reading, language arts, and spelling achievement test scores of pupils who had completed six years of nongraded elementary reading instruction without marks were compared with those of pupils who had received traditional, graded instruction with marks. (HOD)

Describes a plan designed to coordinate the efforts of media specialists/librarians and classroom teachers in teaching research and reference skills. (MKM)

Among the various methods used by a classroom teacher to encourage writing in her first grade class are letter writing, writing a book, writing notes to each other, and keeping journals. The desire to communicate is the primary motivating factor in the development of both oral and written language. (JN)

Describes an experimental course in communication arts covering reading and language arts from kindergarten to grade l2 designed to promote cooperative learning between the special educator and the classroom teacher. (CM)

Media and Methods Reviewers discuss recent paperback books in the following categories: books for young adults, media, culture and society, science fiction, and literature and language arts. (FL)

Discusses how elementary school instruction of Latin in public schools in Philadelphia increased the English vocabulary test scores on standardized tests of fifth graders. Evidence is provided for the efficiency of Latin instruction in strengthening English language skills. (NCR)

Describes how the educational museum Clarke Hall provides a stimulus to language use by involving children in the daily life of the seventeenth century. (DD)

Describes a number of nonnarrative films and suggests ways to use them to integrate media into subject areas, to teach production techniques, to critique films and other visual productions, and to develop good visual taste. (DD)

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

This article criticizes the use of translation from English into French as a method of teaching French, and proposes alternative methods, including a variation on the language experience approach. (CLK)

Most learning centers for science are custom-made by enthusiastic teachers eager to experiment with a new way to make science come alive for students. Suggests a way to plan a science center for the classroom. (Author/RK)

Describes measurement instruments for language development, literature, reading, English as a second language, and writing. (DD)

Interdisciplinary approaches can unlock the doors between subjects and help kids blend facts, concepts and skills. (Editor)