The articles in this publication are (1) "The Children's Literary Heritage" by Dora V. Smith; (2) "Some Approaches to Teaching Standard English as a Second Language" by Charlotte K. Brooks; (3) "Detroit Great Cities School Improvement Program in Language Arts" by Clarence W. Wachner; (4) "Teaching and Testing Critical Listening in the Fifth and Sixth Grades" by Sara W. Lundsteen; (5) "Graphemic-Phonemic Correspondences as the Basis for Teaching Spelling" by Mark Lester; (6) "Understanding and Meeting Individual Needs in Spelling" by John M. Veto; (7) "One Hundred and One More Books for Beginning Readers" by Elizabeth Guilfoile; (8) "A Frequency Approach to Phonics" by Edward Fry; (9) "Teaching Reading in America Using i/t/a" by Albert J. Mazurkiewicz; (10) "Children's Books Can Reflect the American Style of Living" by Patricia J. Cianciolo; (11) "Reading Skills in Teaching Literature in the Elementary School" by William A. Jenkins; (12) "Reading Skills in the Study of Literature in the Junior High School" by Margaret Early; and (13) "Children Face Themselves Through Books: A Bibliography" by Alma Homze. Also included are "NDEA Extended to English" by Julia M. Haven and Arno Jewett, and a report on Project English by Robert C. Slack. (JM)