Addressed to junior and senior high school students, this beginning guide for writing speeches, research papers, and book reports outlines the processes of selecting a subject, organizing material and ideas, and beginning and ending a writing assignment. Offered as a supplement to classroom writing instruction, the guide assumes parental…

GRADES OR AGES: Senior High School. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The subject matter for the program has been divided into two major areas: writing and language, literature and humanities. Students are required to take one course from each area in each quarter. The first part of the guide includes an…

Five arguments supporting creative writing programs in the language arts curriculum are presented.

Discusses ten ERIC documents which offer suggestions for integrating writing activities with oral language, ongoing classroom experiences, and literature. (DD)

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

Writing behaviors such as pacing, crumpling paper, and cutting and pasting are signs of growth requiring nurturance. (DD)

Describes how two fifth-grade classes and one third-grade class used peer groups to respond to students' writing. (DD)

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)

Encourages language arts teachers to give students more opportunities to write in order to develop both their reading and their writing skills. (DD)

This article employs rhetoric to examine the poetic dimensions of one performed narrative in teaching. The analysis stems from a larger study of oral narratives in classroom talk during a Holocaust unit in a middle school language arts classroom. A corpus of seventy-five teacher and student narratives was transcribed and analyzed for the broader…

This preliminary investigation grew out of the Project English study of written composition at the University of Georgia from 1963 through 1968. Toward the end of that project, attention was given to possible relationships between the quality of written composition and certain syntactic measures in student writing produced in schools using the…

GRADES OR AGES: K-6. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into sections: 1) listening, 2) speaking, 3) writing, and 4) reading. The sections on speaking and writing are further subdivided into units. A final section provides guidelines for evaluation of a local program. The guide is offset…

GRADE OR AGES: 15-19. SUBJECT MATTER: Language Arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: There are 12 sections: 1) introduction, including background material, key concepts, and overall objectives; 2) detailed program objectives; 3) speech; 4) listening; 5) writing; 6) reading; 7) viewing; 8) language; 9) sample units; 10) organizational…

GRADES OR AGES: 7-11. SUBJECT MATTER: Language Arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: There are 12 sections: 1) introduction, including background material, key concepts, and overall objectives; 2) detailed program objectives; 3) speech; 4) listening; 5) writing; 6) reading; 7) viewing; 8) language; 9) sample units; 10) organizational…

GRADES OR AGES: Elementary. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: There are three main sections: 1) listening and speaking; 2) written language, with subsections on composition, handwriting, and spelling; and 3) reading, with a subsection on literature. There is also a brief glossary and a list of phonetic aids for…