Team writing and shared ideas are interpersonal experiences that motivate children to write. (JH)

Reviews ten books in two major categories (Professional References and Instructional Materials), which can assist teachers in helping children develop critical power in literacy. (SR)

Discusses seven books and a film that can help teachers capitalize on the benefits of drama in the classroom. (ARH)

Discusses stories that show the actual processes and satisfactions of writing that can serve as models to promote children's writing interest and skills. (HTH)

Recounts a teacher's involvement with students in the spontaneous process of learning to write. Presents the benefits of such an approach as preferable to conventional structured methods of writing instruction. (HTH)

Surveys children's books containing gifted child characters as important sources for identification and extension of experience for gifted children, their classmates, and their teachers. (DD)

Recommends that teachers look for and value the freshness, naivete, humor, and wisdom in children's writing. Samples of children's writing are provided to illustrate these traits. (AEA)

Reviews professional references and instructional materials that focus on language arts instruction. (MM)

Reviews four professional references and two books for instructional materials to help teachers use stories more effectively in the classroom. (MG)

Looks at the dreams, anxieties, confusions, satisfactions, and aspirations of the many worlds of childhood and at the professional materials that can help teachers to reach those worlds. Reviews six resources for professional materials and four resources for instructional materials. (MG)