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)

Mind and mood pictures help students "see" reason in their writing. (Editor)

Authors! Authors! Everybody takes a bow for a class-written drama. (Editor)

Building a railroad or writing about it in class takes a lot of organization. (Editor)

Children respond eagerly to opportunities for interaction with television. Discusses the use of television in employing student interest to build language skills and to emphasize that oral and written expression are vital elements of a medium often considered only visual. (Author/RK)

Describes an activity-centered approach for an elementary language arts project with a careers theme. It begins with exercises in which students identify different kinds of jobs and discuss and practice techniques of interviewing and culminates in the study of a specific job area--advertising. All activities emphasize the importance of subject…