"A Natural Dialogue Unit" by Vincent Wixon and "Introducing Simile" by Patty Stone are provided as examples of successful techniques for helping students draw upon their knowledge of language. (DD)

Suggests how high school English teachers can monitor, evaluate, direct, and expand the viewing experiences of their students. (DD)

Suggests techniques for incorporating the BBC-TV/Time-Life Television Co-production of "The Shakespeare Plays" into high school study of Shakespeare. (DD)

An annotated list of 29 books chosen by 16- to 19-year-olds from over 400 newly-published books. (DD)

Describes 25 articles dealing with how to increase the knowledge of content reading teachers, how to design and implement in-service reading programs, and how to administer and supervise the reading program. (DD)

An annotated bibliography of 45 critical and reference works dealing with science fiction. (DD)

A select list of books, periodicals, texts, films, multimedia kits, and organizations which can serve as resources for exploring aspects of commercial television. (DD)

An update on multimedia resources about mass media for use with students or for teachers' own information. (DD)

Describes 26 documents indexed in the ERIC system that deal with computer applications to the teaching of English in high school. (DD)

Summarizes recent research and theory on or related to the composing process to arrive at a general model or structure for the teaching of writing in secondary schools. (DD)

It is time for a reconciliation among the competing factions among English teachers, including those in favor of humanistic education and those in favor of basic skills, and for the creation of an English for all seasons, immune to changing educational climates and periodic storms of public outrage. (DD)

A workable model for the English curriculum in the 1980s must reflect balance and integration and allow for the benefits of both bigness and smallness. (DD)

Describes how computer-based survey technology was used in one school district to aid in curriculum development. (DD)

Provides a questionnaire with which English teachers can determine whether their instructional techniques are artistic, mechanical, or somewhere between these two extremes. (DD)

Encourages professionals in education to cease coining and misusing educational jargon. (DD)