Reports on observations of classrooms serving Native American students and offers conclusions concerning the type of classroom setting and language arts program most likely to optimize the linguistic development of the students. (DD)

An examination of the writing of an elementary school student shows how students' revisions in their papers and complete rewrites of them are indications of their writing development. (DD)

Encourages the use of dramatization as a way of building vocabulary by showing the meanings of words in the context of experiences associated with them. (DD)

Discusses problems with oral reading, recommends standards to guide the selection of oral reading materials, and suggests nine directions to children to guide their rehearsal for oral reading. (DD)

A fictional account used to demonstrate the importance of making reading interesting and meaningful to children. (DD)

An interview with Michael Stubbs, lecturer in linguistics at the University of Nottingham, regarding the sociolinguistics of the classroom. (DD)

Many students and teachers find creative writing to be too complex to manage. Teachers are unable to identify ways to help students develop necessary skills through creative writing. Teachers can make writing manageable by giving children opportunities that isolate, compartmentalize, and focus on specific aspects of the writer's craft. (Author/NQ)

The language arts curriculum should involve methods, a content, and an atmosphere which celebrate creative language acquisition. (DD)

Teachers can help students restore the human dimension in the learning process through a wide variety of activities. Newspaper stories, magazine articles, and television news coverage are excellent sources for the language arts teacher's efforts to stimulate student awareness of their feelings and environment. (Author/RK)

Soon after "Prescription for Ailing penmanship" (EJ 153 105) appeared in this journal, two readers sent in their adaptations and expansion of the idea, including several "newly discovered" ailments. Here are their descriptions, diagnoses and treatments of strokenemia, messiosis, numberalgia and two secondary manifestations of "t"sles and…

States that 30 million people currently access the Internet, the international electronic superhighway linking thousands of individual computer networks. Offers information about terms used on the Internet; accessing the World Wide Web; language arts, writing, and literacy resources available on the Web; and educational sites, specific databases,…

Describes how an English teacher uses ghost stories in his classroom to further students' interest in and understanding of epics. Presents a short unit in which all the class work focuses on scary kinds of things. (SR)

Discusses two six-week projects for high school students involving qualitative and quantitative research methods to integrate mathematics and English. Students use descriptive statistics and prose to present findings about (1) their school space and (2) daily life for American troops in the Gulf War. (KMC)

Describes new standards set by the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English. States that the new standards reflect the best of current research and theory about how students learn to be powerful users of English language arts. Provides details about the new standards, including how they were revised from their…

Presents an interview with Bernice E. Cullinan. Notes that she has been named the Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts for 2003. Notes that the recipients of this award are selected by members of the Elementary Section Steering Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. Talks about who she is and what she feels she has…