Reports on observations of classrooms serving Native American students and offers conclusions concerning the type of classroom setting and language arts program most likely to optimize the linguistic development of the students. (DD)

Describes how an English teacher uses ghost stories in his classroom to further students' interest in and understanding of epics. Presents a short unit in which all the class work focuses on scary kinds of things. (SR)

Presents an interview with Bernice E. Cullinan. Notes that she has been named the Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts for 2003. Notes that the recipients of this award are selected by members of the Elementary Section Steering Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. Talks about who she is and what she feels she has…

Offers a fictional look at an American high school sometime in a future in which the academic team's performance--a model of reason rather than force, teamwork rather than competition, and the sharing of knowledge--is the focus of school and community pride and involvement. (SR)

The NCTE has established a center of policy research to honor the legacy of James R. Squire in order to support progressive reform in English language arts education. James R. Squire's life and work are discussed in detail.

In this article, the authors explore the ways in which a selection of student teachers from two universities in Canada expressed their feelings of preparedness to teach literacy in elementary classrooms. The student teachers had experienced various approaches to literacy teaching as they progressed through their teacher education program. These…

The answer to the question, "What's happening to the standards project organized by the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)?" is that the project is going forward. Though its federal sponsors rejected it in the fall and winter of 1993-94, the project is continuing under the…

This summary paper, the result of an ongoing collaborative process, presents an extended policy statement for English Language Arts K-12 in Saskatchewan, Canada. The paper is in five major sections: (1) Introduction; (2) Foundations and Principles (outlining the value of language--both dynamic and rule-governed--as a foundation for the English…

This book is an attempt to understand the extension of rhetoric in many directions, not only as a subject matter but also as an analyzing, organizing, and liberating agent. Chapter One is intended as a general introduction to rhetoric, with some account by means of illustrations of its possibilities within what is an expected range. Chapter Two is…

An interview with poet David McCord regarding children's poetry and ways of teaching it. (DD)

Students do need to learn language arts basics, but not merely the ones advocated by the back-to-basics movement. (DD)

The paper's first section discusses the connection between personalized reading and punctuation for young primary grade students, with some specific sentences and teaching ideas. Next, the paper describes 10 kinds of written work, done for specific purposes, that may be used with early primary students to emphasize this personalized connection. It…

Professors of English usually know their subject but may lack knowledge about students and of the teaching art they profess. (Editor)

Dadist poetry instructions. Writing Poems by altering the juxtaposition of words in a newspaper article. (AF)