Urges teachers to present educationally disadvantaged students with great stories, not just the "basics." (JL)

Presents ways of making poetry interesting and exciting to junior high school students, including videotaped readings, cut and paste projects, and dramatic readings. (JL)

Lists 101 ways to use television, radio, film, and other media-related processes and products in the English classroom. (JL)

Describes the curriculum for undergraduates majoring in English at one of Oxford University's 35 colleges and suggests that it can serve as a model for high school students in the United States. (JL)

Contains representative selections from issues of "The Elementary English Review," a precursor to "Language Arts," during its second decade of publication. Includes articles, editorials, and ads reflecting contemporary concerns of English education still relevant today, such as integrating the language arts and school closings.…

Proposes, in prose and in charts, a theory of writing intended to unite the fields of composition studies and literature. (JL)

Proposes that high school English teachers use adolescent literature to develop the reading interests of their students. (FL)

Offers suggestions on how English teachers can take a central role in public relations efforts with parents and the community. (RL)

Discusses how directed reading activities and vocabulary guides can be used in an English classroom to help improve students' reading comprehension. (HOD)

Argues that it is important for high school teachers to present literature orally to students, and explains the proper way to do so. (JL)

Argues that a response-centered approach to literature should begin with a consideration of the students' and later the literature's values. Explains how this can be accomplished through the study of literary modes. (FL)

Describes a technique whereby students are taught to use information they have gained from secondary sources to write critical introductions to novels they have read. (FL)

Outlines a teaching approach that uses writing exercises as a means of encouraging students to read, analyze, and evaluate assigned literature and to express themselves creatively in light of their readings, analyses, and evaluations. (FL)

Examines the appeal of oral histories--their intimacy, authenticity, seeming reliability, and panoramic as well as sharply focused presentations of human life--and the possibilities they offer as subject matter in English classrooms. Provides lists of oral histories and "how-to" books on oral history. (RL)

Suggests that English methods courses should teach prospective teachers how to plan strategies that enable students to value cultural differences. Proposes a three-step model for teaching characterization in literature that can serve as a starting point for the methodology necessary to the integration of multicultural components in literature…