Examines the techniques used by Anne Sullivan in helping Helen Keller to overcome her learning difficulties. (DD)

The third article in a series describing a study of the development of a third grader's approach to revision in writing. (DD)

Illustrates the variety of materials available in the ERIC system, from lesson plans and teaching guides to classroom games and descriptions of individualized activities, for planning language arts lessons. (DD)

To benefit rather than suffer from language, we must keep it in its place, in balance with other functions of the organism. (DD)

Suggests ways that speaking and listening, reading and writing can be brought together in the learner's mind. (DD)

Describes how the educational museum Clarke Hall provides a stimulus to language use by involving children in the daily life of the seventeenth century. (DD)

Describes an attitude study which suggests that by the age of eight or nine children are developing stereotyped attitudes toward speakers of nonstandard English. (DD)

Discusses a group of Ojibway Indian children whose culture is in a transitional stage in terms of literacy to see what the acquisition of reading and writing means to them. (DD)

The language arts curriculum should involve methods, a content, and an atmosphere which celebrate creative language acquisition. (DD)

Urges the conscious study of personal and professional gestures in elementary school so that children can become fully effective communicators and interpreters of communication. (DD)

Suggests ways to involve children in recording examples of folklore such as superstitions, folk remedies, proverbs, and games. (DD)

Nonbilingual teachers of Spanish-speaking students can become more effective through cultural understanding and respect, learning to speak Spanish, team teaching, using bilingual teacher aides, involving parents, and peer teaching. (DD)

Describes a study which suggests that the use of nonprint media can improve children's attitudes toward people with physical handicaps; provides a bibliography of works of literature which might contribute to this same end. (DD)

Provides job cards for language activities in the middle grade classroom which pick up on ideas from "The Phantom Tollbooth," a children's classic by Norton Juster. (DD)

Defines language awareness, examines shifts in meaning which words undergo, and discusses how this topic can be applied in education. (DD)