Describes an experiment to introduce biliteracy development in two Italian-English preschool bilingual children, noting that both children not only learned to read but also improved fluency, production, and receptive language in their weaker language. (CB)

Recounts an experience with a ten-year-old American Indian boy and expresses hope for increased understanding of the cultural differences--and similarities--between Indian children and other children. (DD)

Reviews 17 children's literature trade books which encourage the reader to revel in language via word play, riddles, word study, rhymes, charts, songs, and poetry. (SR)

The authors used teacher action research with the design experiment (A. Brown, 1992) to investigate the effects of working with parents in small groups on kindergarten children's emergent literacy performance. The authors randomly assigned 56 children enrolled in the morning and afternoon sessions of the first author's kindergarten class in a…

Article considered the ingredients for effective teaching of language arts. (RK)

This paper describes various approaches to beginning reading instruction and discusses the major factors which determine success or failure in beginning reading regardless of the approach used. The teacher, the child, and the social and physical environment while being infinitely variable can be controlled to great extent by the teacher of…

Reviews recent innovations in language arts instruction and provides lists of materials children read and books children might make. (DD)

Offers suggestions for differentiation of reading instruction based on Joseph Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model, which provides for general exploratory activities, group training activities, and individual investigations of real problems. (MKM)

Describes the University of Maryland at Baltimore County's one-week foreign language exploratory program for fourth through sixth grade students, and details methods and strategies used to conduct "Spanish Day," where students learned about Spanish language and culture through songs, games, and stories. (CB)

Outlines a hierarchical model of acquisition of second-language phonology, based on the scrutinization of contexts and evocation of appropriate rules through contact situations in which a conflict emerges between the native and target phonologies. (23 references) (Author/CB)

This paper describes and supports (through citations of published literature) hands-on and personalized activities that help English (and any other) language learners of all ages and skill levels to acquire and express integrated reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. The paper discusses use of motor activities, video, graphic art works…