A selective review of research on written composition and the teaching of writing. (DD)

Discusses the need for standardized tests in literature, compares norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests, and lists crucial background documents on the subject. (DD)

Discusses recent changes in theories and practice of teaching English in the colleges and how this reflects in the teaching of high school literature. Eclectic theory of criticism; intrinsic approach to literary study; impressionism and relativism; student engagement and personal responses to literature are examined. (RB)

This study is concerned with increasing the rate at which children progress toward more highly differentiated sentence structure. The study recommends sentence-combining practices that will accelerate this progress. The two main purposes of grammar study have been to prevent errors in writing and to present the full range of sentence structures…

English teachers must teach the reading skills which high school students need to handle informational reading matter and the more thoughtful magazines on the market, as well as the materials every adult encounters on the job or in pursuing a hobby. They must concern themselves with teaching students to read nonfiction prose for the following…