Offers advice to prospective teachers on what to expect from students and how to maintain discipline in the classroom. (RL)

Discusses the advantages inherent in using peer evaluations in writing classes. Offers a list of references on peer teaching in writing instruction. (RL)

Shows that the analysis of verbs in short stories is a valuable teaching method for synthesizing studies of grammar and literature. (RL)

Relates how a high school English teacher reorganized the "basic skills" course to reflect greater attention not to isolated skills and drill but to meaningful practice in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Focuses on the technique of a "Reading Blitz"--five successive days of reading--to develop other language activities. (RL)

Describes research, practice, and resources for giving students writing activities in several rhetorical contexts and to various audiences. (RL)

Twelve English teachers relate their personal experiences with using and learning to use audiovisual aids. (RL)

Outlines a class activity that combines the imagery of art with the imagery of poetry. (RL)

Offers seven ways of circumventing or defusing issues of censorship in the English classroom. (RL)

Provides advice on producing a student-written magazine, one that shows students what "real" writing is like. (RL)

Provides topics and activities by which English teachers can make their students visually literate and capable of critical television viewing. (RL)

Two teachers point out the misuse and the benefits of student journal writing in English classes. (RL)

Reports on a simple yet effective technique that motivates students to spell words carefully. (RL)

Suggests ways students can develop their cognitive and affective responses to literature. Shows how English teachers can use the concepts of identification, dissociation, and evaluation to help students dramatize, talk about, and write about short stories. (RL)

Recounts how and why Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" works as an introduction to colonial United States literature for high school students. (RL)

Sixteen teachers offer their alternative methods of evaluating student work in the English classroom. (RL)