Describes the type of evidence a survey of the type being conducted by the C.C.T.E. might produce, and some of the uses for those results. (AN)

Reviews selected English and language arts curriculum guides in use in five provinces--British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. The discussion focuses on the literature sections of the curriculum guides. (SRT)

States that 30 million people currently access the Internet, the international electronic superhighway linking thousands of individual computer networks. Offers information about terms used on the Internet; accessing the World Wide Web; language arts, writing, and literacy resources available on the Web; and educational sites, specific databases,…

Discusses the role of listening in the language arts and provides a six-stage group project for developing a variety of listening skills. (HTH)

States that "genrists" believe text can be described by its genre or purpose following the edict of "form follows function." Finds that such genre studies (originating in Australia) are a feature of the composition teaching which as an instructional model owes fealty to the Language Awareness and Knowledge about Language…

Suggests language arts instructors use film adaptations as well as novels to teach literature. (PRA)

Discusses types of evaluation appropriate with elementary school writing. (AA)

Describes four techniques that attempt to develop language arts ability within the context of interesting interactions with pieces of good literature. (EL)

Discusses the production of photo essays (or slide/tape presentations) as a teaching technique with elementary school students. (AA)

Presents techniques for reading and writing poetry with intermediate grade children. (AA)

Specific techniques for encouraging the writing of poetry. (AA)

Shows that traditional grammar teaching grew out of nineteenth-century beliefs about language learning and the nature of knowledge that are profoundly different from those that direct the language arts curriculum today. Bases the account on approved textbooks, Alberta Department of Education reports, public examinations, and anecdotal records. (EL)

Recommends instruction at the undergraduate level in the history of language usage in order to place linguistic rules in the proper perspective of developmental change. (KS)

Presents the conditions necessary to stimulate creative writing in school classrooms. (AA)

Discusses reader-based and text-based approaches to teaching literature to high school students and then offers suggestions for questions and activities for the teaching of Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War." (TB)