Encourages the use of dramatization as a way of building vocabulary by showing the meanings of words in the context of experiences associated with them. (DD)

Describes a step-by-step process for opening up the classroom to students in a way that will allow for both freedom and responsibility in reading instruction. (RB)

Presents a public service advertisement by the International Paper Company on how to write a business letter and discusses the ad campaign to improve students' literacy. (DD)

Describes a "literary gift exchange" in which students buy or make gifts for other students' favorite literary characters and explain to the class why the gifts are appropriate. Argues that the gift exchange is a good way to end the school year and review the literature studied. (RS)

Presents a six-step reading/study skills strategy which helps students learn how to approach a new text. (SR)

Describes using a passage from the book "Raney" by Clyde Edgerton as a read-aloud in social studies and language arts classrooms to explore value conflicts, understand cultures, study dialog and to introduce drama. (SR)

Discusses using index card improvisations to review story structure and characterization with eighth-grade students. Notes that students were quickly able to construct a story that their peers enjoyed. (RS)

Demonstrates the positive effect of a computer managed, individually prescribed learning program on the achievement of behaviorally disordered, delinquent adolescents. (RB)

Suggests ways to include readers theater in the English curriculum. (MKM)

Describes and evaluates the Integrated Assessment System, an extensive and flexible language arts assessment system designed to help teachers assess reading and writing skills using genuine, process-oriented, holistic reading and writing tasks. (SR)

Proposes that a newsletter can facilitate communication between parents and language arts teachers at the junior high school level. Outlines the process of publishing a newsletter, including suggested topics and method of distribution. Includes a sample newsletter, "The Reading Connection." (MM)

Discribes ways the reading specialist can help content area teachers improve reading skills. (RB)

Discusses two computer applications to reading instruction: modification of a computer program that calculates readability and criteria for evaluating language arts software. (AEA)

Argues that video technology can provide a motivational tool for learning and practicing language arts skills. Describes the steps in a video production process as analogous to the steps in the writing process. (RS)

Recounts the history of Pennsylvania's attempts to invoke large-scale changes in language-related instructional curricula. Discerns patterns among school districts in terms of literacy instruction as well as in factors that seem to be associated with successful change processes. (RS)