Professors of English usually know their subject but may lack knowledge about students and of the teaching art they profess. (Editor)

Children should not be taught handwriting by tracing techniques. (MF)

Author recommends solutions for the problems of the individualized spelling program. (Author/MF)

The momentous impact of listening competence in all our lives demands that educators place a greater emphasis upon this most important language art skill. (Author/RY)

Development of the senses is necessary to understand poetry. Author made children seek poetry in prose with much success. (AF)

Dadist poetry instructions. Writing Poems by altering the juxtaposition of words in a newspaper article. (AF)

Low average tenth to twelfth graders were taught poetry by using word association. (AF)

Discusses relating literature to drama and music in order to achieve an integrated language arts curriculum. (HTH)

Discusses the role of listening in the language arts and provides a six-stage group project for developing a variety of listening skills. (HTH)

Describes a teaching method for writing and language development in which the class meets around a large kitchen table and the teacher's written responses to children's writing provides a model for their skill development. (HTH)

Discusses the art of riddling and its potential contribution to the elementary school language arts program, including a description of stages of riddling competence of children in the five-to-11 year age range and an examination of riddling efforts gathered from two classrooms. (HTH)