Suggests newspaper headlines which would be appropriate to describe events taking place in nursery rhymes. (DD)

Describes student performances based on interpretations of concrete poetry. (DD)

Suggests language arts and interdisciplinary activities to improve students' handwriting. (DD)

Language arts and science activities are combined in a program based on the adventures of an imaginary character. (DD)

Presents eleven groups of activities students can undertake which deal with sidewalks and which involve both social studies and language arts skills. (DD)

Reviews research on the importance of oral language for the child and provides a framework for curriculum design based on talk purposes, talk contexts, and talk planning. (DD)

Establishes five premises on which language-centered reading is based and makes five recommendations for language-centered reading instruction. (DD)

A "Personalized Contract Book Program," modeled on the way that competent readers learn to read at home, provided a nonpressured environment that fostered students' reading development. (DD)

Uses several anecdotal accounts to illustrate principles of linguistic and cognitive development, and then applies these principles to classroom strategies for teaching reading. (DD)

Describes how two fifth-grade classes and one third-grade class used peer groups to respond to students' writing. (DD)

Suggests an approach to teaching writing that encourages children to write and eliminates error-hunting. (DD)

Suggests approaches to the teaching of figures of speech. (DD)

Describes how a comparison chart may be used by children in grades three through six to record and organize information from several sources for student reports. (DD)

Offers a model of the spelling process and suggests a framework for diagnosis and for grouping of words. (DD)

Describes a technique for eliciting poetry from children through the process of word association. (DD)