Provides specific writing activities to be used with seven different books in the context of both primary and intermediate grade level writing instruction. (HB)

This report is intended to focus attention on the fact that disparate forms of English communication all belong to one language and that the principles of rhetoric are central to a unified approach to the teaching of rhetoric. After describing the history of rhetoric and the need for a modern rhetoric-oriented curriculum, it presents course, unit,…

A three-week conference on the future of the English curriculum in elementary through postsecondary education is discussed. English students would study a variety of works. They would analyze the historical, cultural, and political dimensions of what they read and writing would be an integral part of the curriculum. (MLW)

Examines the conflict between progressive educational ideas and the prescriptive patterns of learning now fashionable in Great Britain. Discusses the teacher training document "Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum for Primary English"--its reduction of complex ideas about the English curriculum to the lowest common denominator is…

A study examined the views of six experts in the teaching of literature concerning ideal curricula in literature at the elementary school level. Data were developed from a detailed, written document in which the experts (three university professors who had made significant scholarly contributions in children's literature and three elementary…