Describes simple prereading activities and questioning techniques for improving comprehension in English. Many of the ideas could be adapted by other subject area teachers. (Author/SJL)

Describes the use of a modified maze approach to teach why some words are more appropriate than others in a poem. (MKM)

A paced question program beginning with simple questions provides an especially appealing and manageable matrix in which the hearing impaired child can examine certain of the most fundamental aspects of the English code. Techniques for involving hearing impaired youngsters in the grammatical morphology of English and English questions are…

Suggests teaching Bernard Malamud's novel, "The Natural," because it is a work of a powerful imagination; can be used to stimulate searches into history, literature, and myth; and can be a catalyst for student writing. Describes several approaches to studying the book. (TJ)

Describes successes encountered in teaching and sponsoring a school newspaper, and encourages others to sponsor school papers despite the pressures operating against such publications. (DD)

Presents the benefits to be derived from journal writing and provides 47 ideas for journal writing. (DD)

Suggests the use of parody to deepen students' understanding of how and why poems work. (TJ)

Describes how a freshman English course can be taught with a technical writing emphasis to make the course more relevant to the needs and interests of students planning technical careers. (TJ)

Suggests an approach to teaching writing that encourages children to write and eliminates error-hunting. (DD)

Suggests why four prime time television series are worthy of attention in the English classroom and suggests topics for classroom discussion and writing activities based on them. (DD)

Relates a two-part writing assignment for the study of poetry, in which students are assigned to write a critique in response to a particular question and are then asked to give a personal response. (TJ)

Suggests encouraging students to use three or four steps to disintegrate their original objective descriptions of an event in a novel as a way to experiment with writing and to develop some critical observations about the author's fictional world. (TJ)

Suggests a short library assignment researching journal articles pertaining to a student's major or vocational interest as a way to encourage exploration of the library, prepare students for writing more lengthy papers, and introduce students to a variety of material related to specific subjects. (TJ)

Suggests the use of a chart to help students learn to use apostrophes correctly. (TJ)

Defines and describes the "models approach,""activities approach," and "models and activities approach." (DD)