Urges teachers to publish their students' writing. (JL)

Describes six secondary school reading programs that foster parent involvement. (RL)

Explores the many facets of graffiti as humor, with some educational asides about using graffiti to explain forms, styles, attitudes, and variations in language. (RL)

A rationale for using film in the language arts classroom and suggestions on how to use it. (DD)

Lists eight reasons why teachers gain from having students keep daily, in-class journals. (RL)

An imaginative, humorous alternative to the present state of affairs in secondary education, calling for students and their mothers to exchange their daily drudgery. (JT)

Discusses approaches to writing poetry in high school English classes, giving students many successful writing experiences in which classmates can commend each other's word choices. Offers three patterns for generating in-class poems. (RL)

Explains several options or roles for classroom teachers of English to learn at a teacher center: participant, resource person, workshop leader, center director or staff member, and policy board member. (DD)

Reviews research in the teaching of writing, suggests appropriate ways to teach writing, and concludes that the most important thing for writing teachers to do is to find pleasure in writing themselves. (DD)

Describes how to motivate students by helping them publish their own writing or find commercial firms to publish it for them. (DD)

A mild satire on a part of the English teacher's occupation. (Author)

Discusses how to help students prepare for, evaluate, and understand the "new" television season. (DD)

Suggests that "Johnny Can Read" the popular magazines that Johnny wants to read, and encourages teachers to consider making such magazines a part of the reading program. (DD)

Discusses the history of the author's involvement with books for more than 65 years and with the teaching of English for more than 40 years. (DD)

Suggests ways to motivate students to write poetry, and illustrates them with samples of student poems. (DD)