Presents the conditions necessary to stimulate creative writing in school classrooms. (AA)

Discusses some of the best current books dealing with handicapped children. (DD)

Practicing dictionary skills helps kids discover something old, something new and something borrowed about our language's history. (Editor)

Contains five lists of objects beginning with the letters "A" through "Z" which provide examples of ways to stimulate all five of a child's senses. (DD)

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

A monthly exchange of tips, projects, ideas and resources. (Editor)

Presents ten categories which illustrate the range of the uses of language, and discusses implications for instruction. (DD)

Suggests that values clarifying procedures implemented within the language arts program can improve children's self-image and their attitude toward reading and other language arts skills. Gives examples of values strategies. (JM)

Students' collection of divorce stories were the focus of this writing project. Sample stories are included. (HOD)

Provides sample classroom exercises to develop middle school and high school youngsters' sensitivity to language skills, spelling, and grammar. Includes riddles, puns, puzzles, and other games drawn from J. Shipley's "Word Play." (JG)

Advocating the whole language philosophy as an approach which makes language learning easy and fun for hearing-impaired children, activities involving reading favorite books, shared reading, and rewriting stories wherein new words and sentence structures are introduced in the context of the whole story or poem. (CB)

Reviews three computer software programs for classroom use: Muppet Word Book, for children three to six; Dragon Game Series, on parts of speech, for students in grades four through high school; and Chemistry Achievement I, for students who are 16 to 18 years old, or in grades 10 to 12. (BB)

Presents an example of economics teaching in a "language arts format." The example shows how students might learn basic economics vocabulary by reading a story (supplied) and writing about its events. (GEA)

Describes how a group of language arts teachers established a year-long research project in collaboration with a university, and how, through participation in the project, they transformed their teaching, became more active professionally, and became critical, responsive users of current research. (ARH)