Defines and illustrates free, haiku, cinquain, diamante, septolet, and quintain verse patterns and urges their use in motivating students to compose poems. (SW)

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; includes ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic. (RD)

Describes how music can be used to evoke creative responses from students. (SW)

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the Center for Applied Linguistics; describes the bi-dialectal approach to second dialect acquisition; ERIC abstracts are included for documents pertinent to this topic. (SW)

When the science of linguistics is treated as a variety of ways for searching for truth and theory, rather than as a body of established theories, it can be taught successfully in the early grades. Some of the generalizations in linguistics (e.g., the articulatory description of differences between significant sounds, of the classification of…

Encouraging children to write helps bring out their feelings and develop positive self-concepts. (RB)

Suggests that skills need not be taught in isolation for they will be learned if the student has sufficient motivation. Suggests that teacher set in motion a reading, writing, speaking, listening and rewriting program with the ultimate goal of publication. Includes examples of the work of some of her own students. (RB)

Report of some of the most recent information in the field as found in books, articles, and doctoral dissertations. (Author/RY)

Discusses the goals and implementation of the Oral-Aural-Visual Stimuli Approach to teaching written composition at the McNeill Model School, Bowling Green, Kentucky. (SW)

The question of whether or not intermediate grade children write about their problems was the focus of an investigation conducted among 363 fourth grade students. Children were requested to respond to a paragraph concerning change in the world by writing a compostion answering how and what they would change if they had the power. Findings showed…

Describes her experiences with an innovative approach to the teaching of poetry to five ninth grade English classes. (RB)

States that the teacher of students with differing dialects should start by accepting the students and their speech; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 27, 1970). (Editor/SW)

A discussion of the accomplishments and prospects of computer assisted and computer managed instruction. (RD)