Contains representative selections from issues of "The Elementary English Review," a precursor to "Language Arts," during its second decade of publication. Includes articles, editorials, and ads reflecting contemporary concerns of English education still relevant today, such as integrating the language arts and school closings.…

Describes a proposed senior years English program, plans for piloting an English language arts program, and progress made in implementing a kindergarten through grade 12 English language arts program. (AEA)

Describes the ERIC system and how teachers can use it. Annotates materials in the system of interest to elementary school language arts teachers, dealing with composition instruction. (HTH)

Describes an educational program that involves the use of theatre and dramatic approaches by a team of actor/teachers in order to promote learning in a school. Contains a script for a play developed by a Theatre in Education team and its students. (HTH)

Discusses educating preservice teachers in the art of storytelling and outlines suggestions for teaching elementary school children how to become storytellers. (HTH)

Describes the planning and preparation involved in an authors' week, where authors of children's books took part in school discussion groups. (MKM)

Cites some of the attempts to link theater with communication within the field of speech communication and describes the ways the two areas have shifted synchronously during the 1950s and 1960s. Suggests explanations for the parallel changes and new directions for further inquiry. (JMF)

The author favorably reviews the "SUCCESS in Beginning Reading and Writing Program" developed by Dr. Anne Adams of Duke University. The two-hour instructional program is divided into four modules: phonics/spelling; content reading; writing language experience stories; and recreational reading. Program costs and ease of use are noted.…

Argues that teaching a unit on death provides an opportunity to focus students' reading, writing, and thinking on a subject area in which they are vitally interested. Suggests activities and describes the extensive literature available on death suitable for elementary through college students. (AEA)

Five educational leaders--John Downing, Richard E. Hodges, Charlton Laird, Pose Lamb, and Roy C. O'Donnell--offer reflections on significant developments in research on language development during the 1970s and on their hopes for language research and instruction in the 1980s. (GT)

Describes a bilingual open classroom program for kindergarten children in which the classroom environment is rich with printed language and children are introduced to reading by an individualized system they both enjoy and profit from. Tells how children "write" books, how phonics is introduced, and how reading is incorporated in a variety of…

Described is an activity designed to maintain a good working environment during the difficult last week and first week of school. It is a letter-writing unit that has graduating eighth graders recall their feelings about junior high school for the fall's incoming seventh graders. (KC)

Tracking down the similarities between two beloved stories (the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars) led to a critical analysis of other tales. Through this process, students discovered why some books are classics, became more discriminating readers, and applied what they learned to their own creative writing. (Author/KC)

The mastery learning methods developed by Ethna Reid at the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) in Utah have been adopted by a fifth grade class in Allentown, New Jersey. This article briefly explains some of the techniques used in ECRI instruction. (SJL)

Presents reasons for including critical television viewing skills in the language arts curriculum. (RL)