Discussion of the use of movement in writing classes focuses on a poetry class for eight- to twelve-year-olds that incorporated basketball. Describes listening to the sounds of basketball, recalling memories of basketball, breathing and movement, reading aloud to others, revisions, and public reading for families and friends. (LRW)

Oral tests for speaking skills evaluate two major skills: linguistic competence, including accuracy of pronunciation, vocabulary, and structure, and communication ease. Four factors affect students' oral performance: verbal intelligence, short-term auditory and visual memory, sound-symbol association skill, and grammatical analysis. Personality…

Ponders whether multimedia composition can help first-year composition students learn how authors sort memories to make narrations powerful. Describes students' experiences in a composition course when they were asked to digitize sound and graphics to add meaning to written texts--to make their narrations more powerful and concrete. Suggests an…