Considers how Frank O'Connor's "My Oedipus Complex" provides a good introduction to the subtleties of narrative voice and control. Concludes by considering the notion of control and its relation to the narrative point of view in O'Connor's story and how it bears directly upon the value of reading literature and the reader's role. (SG)

Offers a brief historical overview of the reading-writing connection. Argues that making personal connections and self-monitoring comprehension are key behaviors of active readers and should be promoted during reading as well as before and after. Describes one such reading activity, called the "Think-Link" chart, that requires writing, encourages…

Argues that educational standards in Saskatchewan, Canada high schools must be raised in the areas of reading and writing. (RB)

The treatment of educational trends is seldom fine-grained enough to communicate the complexity of the issues involved. A "beyond-the-trend" analysis of movements and countermovements in composition, reading, literature, and oral language reveals some new wrinkles in trends that are now well established in the professional literature of English…

With a central theme of how people create a means to communicate reliably, and based on language-making exercises that touch students' imaginations, this book aims to interest students in language and how language is made. Since students like codes and ciphers, the book begins with secret writing, which is then used to reveal the foundation of…

Argues for reading election in the English curriculum. (RB)

Generalizes about the use of literature in classrooms in South Australia, Victoria, A.C.T., Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and Northern Territory. (DF)

A Discussion of bidialectalism and the social and racial biases inherent in it. The author portrays linguistic prejudice as an instrument of repression and says that we should know and respect our children's language as we demand that they know and respect our own. (Author/JB)

Describes documents in the ERIC data base that review research on schemata and reading comprehension and discuss the implications of using the schemata paradigm in educational research and practice. (MKM)

Presents a read-aloud from Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." Discusses briefly the novel and the selection, and then describes specific activities for English and for language arts instruction. (SR)

Discusses the findings of an extensive research study of the authors and writing most frequently assigned in college-level English survey courses. Finds that similar historical periods and authors are considered in the survey courses offered by college and university English departments. Finds that traditional authors continue to be taught in…

Examines the concept and practice of bibliotherapy. Considers how young adult fiction can be used as the subject of study in classrooms devoted to bibliotherapy ends. (HB)

Uses a tongue-in-cheek approach and enumerates 12 culprits that historically have created havoc among children in their quest to learn to read and understand the English language, including word attack skills, graphemic-phonemic relationships, compound words, homographs, semantic analysis, and more. (SR)