Article lists activities that can turn the morning paper into a comprehensive language arts program. (Editor)

Presents ideas for getting elementary students to explore the meaning of cliches and idiomatic phrases. (SJL)

A monthly exchange of tips, projects, ideas and resources. (Editor)

Presented are several word and sentence puzzles, both simple and complex, for student use. All involve various-shaped grids made up of squares for letter or word fill-ins. (Author/SJL)

Soon after "Prescription for Ailing penmanship" (EJ 153 105) appeared in this journal, two readers sent in their adaptations and expansion of the idea, including several "newly discovered" ailments. Here are their descriptions, diagnoses and treatments of strokenemia, messiosis, numberalgia and two secondary manifestations of "t"sles and…

20 auditory activities that train your students' ears and raise awareness. (Editor)

Article described activities designed to help children perceive their world and express themselves orally and in writing. (Editor/RK)

Draft it, revise it, edit it. Children write their way into publishing and good communication. (Editor)

A monthly exchange of tips, projects, ideas and resources. (Editor)

A monthly exchange of tips, projects, ideas and resources. (Editor)

Help kids create poems, stories and plays orally and they'll be readier to write. (Editor)

Describes an early-practice approach to research skills using activity work sheets, a technique that yields an immediate bonus because once they've been mastered most students can apply the skills smoothly to many areas of the curriculum. (Author/RK)

Draw an eye. Add a crown. Children make a gallery of illustrations to help "narrate" a story. (Editor)

Poems, activities and your kids' own ideas can produce a play that is truly their own. (Editor)

English is next! Children eagerly look forward to new language arts experiences when they can draw on some of their own. (Editor)