Discusses the findings of two studies of the teaching of writing in high school and provides a "Students' Writing Questionnaire" with which teachers can determine the writing instruction their students have received. (DD)

Describes how oral stories may form the basis for an approach to the teaching of literature, writing, and language. (DD)

Discusses a number of devices for motivating students to read both in and out of the classroom. (DD)

Urges teachers to use tapes of past radio programs as motivational devices and teaching aids; lists tapes available for purchase. (DD)

Describes questioning techniques and other approaches that stimulate class discussion and lead to better student writing. (DD)

Illustrates a technique for eliciting student epigrammatic poetry. (DD)

Describes successes encountered in teaching and sponsoring a school newspaper, and encourages others to sponsor school papers despite the pressures operating against such publications. (DD)

Describes a program that gives high school students training in three aspects of journalism as well as field experience. (DD)

Points out that students in creative writing classes can look to students in other disciplines, curricula of other departments, and school clubs and organizations to discover audiences for creative writing. (DD)

Describes how to motivate students by helping them publish their own writing or find commercial firms to publish it for them. (DD)

Describes a unit for an English or reading class on the analysis of propaganda and advertising. (DD)

Describes 50 activity ideas and 30 topics for writing that bring career education, creative writing and composition together. (DD)

A mild satire on a part of the English teacher's occupation. (Author)

Presents the benefits to be derived from journal writing and provides 47 ideas for journal writing. (DD)

This second in a two-part series suggests more than 60 ways to use the young adult novel to enrich the composition program. (DD)