Provides an annotated bibliography of sources that will help teachers select materials and structure activities in oral interpretation, readers theatre, improvisation, and creative speaking for the English classroom. (MM)

Explains how student writing clubs can be used effectively in a middle school English class. Suggests that the required club publications not only provide a strong incentive for students to develop their writing skills, but also encourage student control and decision making, demand student leadership, and elicit parent involvement. (MM)

Presents an annotated bibliography of the 20 books found to be most popular in an annual survey of high school students' reading choices. (MM)

Suggests that films can enrich students' understanding of the literature on which they are based and can strengthen the same academic competencies students are expected to develop through reading. (MM)

Presents four responses to reports by National Commission on Excellence, Twentieth Century Fund, and Carnegie Foundation suggesting (1) teachers are essential to educational success, (2) teachers can use the reports to promote professional objectives, (3) National Commission on Excellence made a serious mistake in trying to alarm Americans into…

Argues that educators need to be familiar with US educational history in order to distinguish between what is merely recent and what is genuinely new in English instruction. (MM)

Describes the personal and professional qualities that made Dora V. Smith a great teacher. (MM)

Presents teacher commentary of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to help put today's teaching into a broader perspective. (MM)

Offers a historical perspective on English instruction and suggests some modes of reintegrating communication skills and literature. (MM)

Describes the experiences of a university professor and a secondary school teacher in introducing innovations into the English classroom. (MM)

Describes the history of the secondary school English curriculum in New South Wales, Australia since 1911. Examines the gradual shift from centralized control over curriculum development to an emphasis on teacher control over course content. (MM)

Describes the developing use of visual aids in the English classroom, from picture books and magic lanterns to projectors, films, television, videotapes, and computers. (MM)

Details early twentieth century requirements for training secondary school English teachers--voice training and the study of English literature, literary history, literary criticism, and language study--and describes a suggested teacher education curriculum. (MM)

Describes the efforts of educators throughout the twentieth century to challenge committees, commissions, and teachers of English to investigate and communicate possible solutions to problems faced by real English teachers in real classrooms. (MM)

Identifies 10 writers, editors, teachers, and presidents of the National Council of Teachers of English who were cited by a poll of educators as having a major influence on secondary school English instruction. (MM)