In order to help children appreciate poetic surprises, teachers should select poems which appeal to the predictive sense by means of such devices as rhyming words, thematic twists, and surprise endings. (DD)

Describes the Nigerian (Yoruba) storytelling tradition and the techniques employed to perpetuate it in the home and in the school. (DD)

Describes techniques for acquainting children with the dictionary. (DD)

An interview with poet David McCord regarding children's poetry and ways of teaching it. (DD)

Describes how picture books can be used by language arts teachers in the upper grades. (DD)

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)

Provides eight tips that may help language arts teachers better manage their time. (DD)

Reviews ERIC documents on ways of improving preservice and inservice education of reading and language arts teachers. (DD)

Encourages the use of comics in the language arts classroom. (DD)

Draft it, revise it, edit it. Children write their way into publishing and good communication. (Editor)

Reading teachers should recognize the distinction between prefixes and etymological elements in whole words. (DD)

Presents ten activity cards which can be used in developing students' defining skills. (DD)