Recommends reading aloud to students or having them read aloud themselves as a way of stimulating their interest in what they are reading about and in reading itself. (JL)

Describes a remedial writing class in which students learned organizational skills by cutting up and rearranging their own freewriting on a particular topic. (JL)

Supports teaching literature from a religious point of view. (JL)

Covers an innovative elective program, views of language and language instruction, and attitudes toward English teachers and the English curriculum. (JL)

Points out parallels between running and writing. (JL)

Describes in detail an elective unit that used novels, plays, films, and historical texts to engage student interest in a difficult and relevant topic. (JL)

Describes a "change of feeling" writing exercise, in which seventh graders learned to love bats and to write at the same time. (JL)

Laments the lack of change in suggested titles for high school readers. Suggests that librarians could help teachers find newer material and recommends some outstanding literature for adolescents. (JL)

Insists upon the importance of poetry and provides a procedure for introducing both students and teachers to the writing and appreciation of poems. (JL)

Stresses the importance of letter writing as an enriching activity; describes "All About Letters," a resource booklet for teaching students to write letters; and suggests additional activities that can be used to incorporate letter writing skills into composition classes. (JL)

Distinguishes English teaching as science from English teaching as art. Opts for teaching as art. (JL)

Recounts how old radio shows were used by one teacher to help students develop listening, speaking, and writing skills. (JL)

Applies educational research on the composing process to the writing of junior high school students. Explains how tapes were used to create a new unit aimed at correcting student writing weaknesses. (JL)

Ponders plagiarism. Proposes a "personnoting page," a place where students acknowledge everyone who helped them as a way of avoiding plagiarism. (JL)

Discusses Dylan Thomas' poetry as examples of an art form evolving from real, human experience to word pictures which communicate a message in the sense of a vision . . . YofI the meaning of existence." (Author/SW)