This curriculum bulletin discusses a program teaching creative writing to fifth and sixth grade children in an attempt to improve the quality of written English. These children wrote briefly every day throughout the school year. Every area of the written language curriculum was covered. Each student wrote letters, reports, stories, editorial…

The purpose of this book is to help the adult, and through the adult the child, to regain the delight of poetic language in rhythm and rhyme. In chapter one the reader becomes aware of the need for poetry as a life fulfillment at all age levels. Many suggestions on how and when to read poetry and what poems to read are given in chapters two and…

Concerned with language as a form of social experience, this book considers language, English in particular, as an element in the pattern of daily life, as a form of contract between individuals and society, as the object and instrument of social judgments, as a historical testament to the continuity of human culture, and as the medium of literary…

Elementary school students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades were asked to do three different tasks in an attempt to determine how frequently children at these various ages use figurative language. Results for a Composition Task showed that children tend to produce a greater number of frozen than novel figures, and that the absolute level of…

This study proposed to identify teachers' questions and concerns in helping children write creatively in the intermediate grades of six elementary schools in Plainedge, N.Y.; to assess the extent of teacher interest in these questions and concerns for treatment in a teachers' guide; to write such a guide and test its adequacy for meeting teachers'…

The relationship of speech training to the written English of selected Negro students using substandard English in an elementary school was investigated. The limitations to the study are: (1) The elementary school is a small rural school with an enrollment of about 500 white and 80 Negro students; (2) The school has only one part-time speech…

Conclusions from an examination of the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress indicate that it furnishes little help for those involved in the publication of composition textbooks. Four main difficulties in making inferences from the Assessment data on writing are (1) it is not clear why individuals perform as well or as poorly…

National results for writing, one of the subjects assessed by National Assessment during 1969-70, were reported in November 1970. In the present report, results are presented by age (9, 13, 17 and young adults between 26 and 35) and by three classifications: (1) sex, (2) region: southeast, central, west, and (3) size of community: big cities,…

The literature of black America repeatedly reflects a native rootlessness and its creators' yearning for a home. The black writer settles his work in an ethos, which has evolved from an older African heritage, primarily in response to an omnipresent white society. In this document, one of these ethnic expressions--the blues--is examined as a means…

This book reviews for both the experienced and the new teacher essential developments that have helped shape new content in the teaching of English language and composition. The materials contained in the book are designed for independent study, for informal study in workshops or conferences, or for formal study in in-service courses. The chapters…

The effectiveness of two techniques of teaching freshman composition is assessed. One technique is the use of extensive written comments on the cover sheet and pages of a theme to inform the writer of his strengths and weaknesses. The other is the use of one class period per theme for the discussion of two or three of the themes written for that…

This edition of the "Bulletin of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English" consists primarily of articles on composition, with special attention to the composing process. John F. Butler, in "On Teaching Composition," discusses strategies for meeting two goals in college composition: teaching the more artful use of language and teaching the…

Four units in a junior high school language arts program--literature, rhetoric, language, and reading--are presented in this curriculum guide. The introduction argues that a viable language arts program should be relevant to the immediate needs of the students, should emphasize self-discovery, and should attempt to unify the content and process of…

This curriculum guide for the teaching of composition at the sixth grade level includes lessons in six categories: Observing, Recallin Experiences, Making Words Work, Causes and Effects, Using Imagination, and Considering Audience. The lessons include a statement of purpose, a description of primary and/or secondary skills that are objectives of…

This book describes the various functions of the television journalist--in the United States and Great Britain--and supplies knowledge enabling members of a television team to work successfully as a unit. Separate chapters are devoted to discussions of (1) the world of television journalism, (2) writing for television, (3) the role of the…