Suggests ways to enlist parents' support of language arts instruction, to provide parents with materials to develop their children's language skills, and to offer workshops for parents. (DD)

A teacher of gifted elementary students discusses her class's annual Shakespeare project which involves studying his life, reviewing familiar passages, and finally presenting one of his plays. (CL)

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

A teacher discovers the Teddy Bear as something common to her first graders' backgrounds and uses it as a motivator for a creative language arts program. (Author/RK)

Authors! Authors! Everybody takes a bow for a class-written drama. (Editor)

Building a railroad or writing about it in class takes a lot of organization. (Editor)

Finger-snapping, toe-tapping music is a prelude to penmanship practice. (Editor)

Career education has become an integral part of the regular classroom curriculum. Its many facets blend well with whatever topic, subject area, or pupil interest is being studied. Discusses learning activities that are active instructional strategies with built-in flexibility which can be adapted for students, syllabus, school, and community.…

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

Argues that the English language arts can play a major role in arriving at practical coherence in school curricula because of the unique nature of the discipline and the unique integrative role of language in human experience. Discusses literature in interdisciplinary English and the contributions of English to interdisciplinary curriculum. (SR)

Discusses 44 recently published poetry collections, noting ways teachers can help children deepen their enjoyment of poetry by helping them become aware of the subtle things poets do. Uses the concept of rhythm to organize the books, believing that rhythm gives poetry its feeling of movement. (SR)

Muses on curriculum reform and standards. Proposes 12 possible courses (36 credits) which could be required for certification of elementary school teachers. (PA)

Describes a program to develop students' oral language skills, a critical component of language arts in the preschool through sixth-grade curriculum. States that, for each level, a master list was comprised to help teachers discuss the creation of a continuum of oral language objectives. Finds the program made teachers, parents, and students…

Illustrates the benefits and challenges of team-teaching in a multi-age classroom by describing one school's efforts at implementing language arts instruction within an interdisciplinary approach. Discusses initiating multi-age grouping and the advantages and challenges of multi-age classrooms. Offers recommendations. (SR)

Describes a career awareness unit for middle school language arts students which focuses on the special uses of language found in different professions. (SR)