The following book on composition in the elementary school grows out of the activities of the Tri-University Project (now called the Nebraska TTT Institute in Elementary Education). The project is concerned with improving the education of young children by working to improve the education of the teachers in Higher Education who educate the…

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

Describes several activities which might be used in inservice courses to help language arts teachers experience the process of writing. (DD)

Describes a year-long program to help five- and six-year olds create and appreciate literature. (DD)

Describes how a group of teachers of grades three through eight initiated and carried out a project that reformed their school's writing curriculum. (ARH)

Describes a program in which students meet with and listen to authors. (DD)

Describes the benefits of having preschoolers take photographs and caption them. (DD)

Suggests films which help get children excited about oral and written expression. (DD)

In this article, the author relates her experience in teaching poetry and how it shapes everything she and her students do in the classroom. As a language arts teacher for students in grades 7 to 12, she discovered poetry to be magical in many ways, for it offers such advantages as, brevity, which allows a quick reading and discussion of a…

Examines the existing system of teaching children to write in Britain, especially where critical thinking is taught in relation to scientific writing. (RB)