Suggests that oral interpretation units in language arts courses have value in themselves in addition to their value in helping students improve their writing skills. (DD)

Describes a course in comparative North/South American literature as a model of one approach to broadening students' ethnic and cultural viewpoints. (DD)

Describes a technique, the "Guided Writing Procedure," for integrating content teaching and writing improvement. Provides a series of sequential steps for implementing the procedure. (TJ)

Offers a method of substituting new words for the words in a well-known phrase to demonstrate the power of syntax. (TJ)

Suggests using different newspaper accounts of the same news event to help composition students begin to understand that there is more than one correct way to write. (TJ)

Suggests several ways to motivate adolescents in selecting books for individual reading in the English classroom; stresses the importance of positive attitudes toward reading. (MAI)

Outlines a free reading program that involves students in producing audiovisual materials to create interest in books. (MAI)

Describes a cooperative program where a teacher and media specialist use public relations techniques to promote reading and class discussion. (MAI)

Suggests the use of William Carlos Williams' poem, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," as a way of demonstrating the use of punctuation to change the meaning of a piece of writing. (TJ)

Stresses the importance of teaching students to revise and suggests a way to teach revising as part of class discussion. (TJ)

Suggests a method for helping students learn to revise their papers by carrying out a series of assigned tasks either individually or in groups. (TJ)

Discusses a number of devices for motivating students to read both in and out of the classroom. (DD)

A review of available textbooks and other resources dealing with neo-classical invention, prewriting, tagmemic invention and linguistic theory, the dramatistic method, and invention in speech communication. (DD)

The multitext approach to the teaching of English allows for more teacher control over course content, greater variety in subject matter, easier provision for individual differences, and less financial expenditure. (DD)

Describes teaching techniques for using the multitext approach to English to motivate high school students. (DD)