Discusses student responses to and interactions with a professional children's writer who visited a fifth grade writing workshop. Describes the emerging confidence as writers of the children and the classroom teacher as a result of the author's visits. (HTH)

Argues that literacy in the 1980s means the power to use language for one's own purposes as well as those of society. Explores the classroom phase of exercising this power through the critical commentary and discussion of social issues of three students in a lower-class London school. (HTH)

Activities to help senior high students learn about human rights are suggested. The activities include both social studies and language arts skills objectives. Examples of activities include reading and discussing newspapers, magazines, fiction, biographies, and nonfiction; viewing films; conducting research; preparing posters; making maps;…

Children are motivated to write when they produce their own rubber stamps to use in their stories. Suggestions for making rubber stamps in the classroom are given. (DF)

Urges that the English teacher learn and use in class the formal outline to help students learn thinking skills that will help in composition and in computer programing. (CRH)

Explores the effects of positive and negative reinforcement in the classroom and the role of language in the "celebration of learning." (HTH)

A recent study in Baltimore shows that the inclusion of a structured cognitive skills program in the language arts curriculum significantly improved student verbal performance on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). (MD)

Examines two language arts computer innovations that are based on the process view of reading and writing rather than on the "reductionist" or individual skills view. The first is a software program called "Puzzler," the second is the application of word processing in composition. (HTH)

Calls for a reintegration of the language arts in order to improve students' learning. Discusses the factors that contribute to this learning--warm, human relationships of persons engaged in the common enterprise of personal and interpersonal growth. (CRH)

Comments on 114 studies in such areas as language, oral communication, written communication, pre-first grade programs, and beginning reading instruction. (DD)

Children say "I'm special" with their own photographs while they develop new skills. (Editor)

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

Provided are 33 ideas for incorporating science topics into a creative writing class. (SL)