Reviews ERIC documents on ways of improving preservice and inservice education of reading and language arts teachers. (DD)

Encourages the use of comics in the language arts classroom. (DD)

Draft it, revise it, edit it. Children write their way into publishing and good communication. (Editor)

Reading teachers should recognize the distinction between prefixes and etymological elements in whole words. (DD)

Presents ten activity cards which can be used in developing students' defining skills. (DD)

The real basics are not grammar and the surface features of language, but syntactic fluency, accomodation to a writing situation, and responsibility for what one has written. (DD)

Describes a year-long program to help five- and six-year olds create and appreciate literature. (DD)

In language education, several recent curricular developments from expressive writing to interactional reading share a common core of assumptions rooted in British Romanticism. This article compares central tenets of the New Literacy and Romanticism, focusing on the former's reconceptualization of the teacher, the student, and the language arts…

Class-made scrapbooks with mounted photographs (taken by the teacher) of hearing-impaired preschool students in previous learning activities were used to encourage students' language development and improve their communication skills. Suggestions for teachers regarding supplies and equipment and hints for taking good pictures are offered. (CB)

A review of the Writer Rabbit software program details its multiple classroom uses, focusing on language arts activities such as practicing identification and classification of sentence parts, practicing spelling, and inventing stories. (CB)

Describes how a group of teachers of grades three through eight initiated and carried out a project that reformed their school's writing curriculum. (ARH)

This article presents a five-day science unit focusing on fish to get kindergarten students interested in science and ideas for incorporating science instruction with language arts and art instruction. (CB)

Describes a study showing that primary grade students can benefit from using a word processor in activities that involve the creation of text. Suggests activities that further extend the value of the word processor in language arts instruction. (EL)