Written by English teachers considered successful in directing collaborative learning, this collection of essays focuses on the effective use of collaborative learning in the English language arts classroom. The essays and their authors are, as follows: (1) "None of Us Is as Smart as All of Us" (Dana Herreman); (2) "Collaborative Learning and Other Disasters" (Richard Whitworth); (3) "Interactive Learning in the Composition Classroom" (Caryl Klein Sills); (4) "The Power of Collaboration" (Carol Gilles and Marc VanDover); (5) "Fine Cloth, Cut Carefully: Cooperative Learning in British Columbia" (Tom Morton); (6) "A Writing Teacher's Guide to Processing Small-Group Work" (E. Kathleen Booher); (7) "Cooperative Learning in the Literature Classroom" (Rex Easley); (8) "Group Library Research and Oral Reporting in Freshman Composition" (Barbara Schoen); (9) "Talking about Books: Readers Need Readers" (Adele Fiderer); (10) "Group Presentations of Poetry" (Muriel Ridland); (11) "Getting Out of the Writing Vacuum" (Margaret B. Fleming); (12) "Partners in the Writing Process" (Sharon E. Tsujimoto); (13) "Monitoring Individual Progress in Revision Groups" (Mary K. Simpson-Esper); (14) "Building Effective Student Writing Groups" (Jeffrey S. Copeland and Earl D. Lomax); (15) "The Group Paper" (Corrine Alonso); (16) "Ensuring the Success of Peer Revision Groups" (Edgar H. Thompson); (17) "Revising Response Groups" (Marie Foley); (18) "Project Write Start: Elementary and Secondary Writing Partners" (Kirsten Barfod Levinsohn and John Kendall); (19) "A Lesson in Rhetoric: Writing and Performing TV Commercials" (G. Douglas Meyers); (20) "The Sound of Music: A Harmonious Meeting of Minds" (Virginia McCormick); (21) "Six Sides to Learning" (S. Phyllis M. Taufen); (22) "Literature across the Curriculum: The "Twenty-One Balloons" in the Sixth-Grade Classroom" (Donald R. Bear and Deborah Lohman); and (23) "Scriptwriting in Small Groups" (Carole Cox). (MM)