A systematic language-learning program in the language arts is proposed which contains three proponents for teaching children how to read: language evaluation, oral language, and written language. (CS)

A reevaluation of novelist Richard Wright's first book, which is a collection of five short stories-- Big Boy Leaves Home,'' Down by the Riverside,'' Long Black Song,'' Fire and Cloud,'' and Bright and Morning Star''--and an introductory essay, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.'' (JM)

Presents a rationale for teaching writing in today's multi-media, electronic age and suggests teaching techniques for improving writing skills. (RB)

Presents seven documents in the ERIC system which discuss innovative approaches to the teaching of freshmen composition courses. (RB)

Presents a summary of language arts research relative to early childhood education. (TO)

Authors describe a remedial writing course and conclude that individualized instruction is effective, efficient and economical. (Author/HB)

Applied mainly to low achievers, the writing and reading program formulated by this teacher was based on a personal approach aimed toward inculcating the habit of thinking. (MM)

Discusses Hughes' poetry as it was shaped by three influences: the free verse--imagist--realist schools'' popular during the first third of this century; the African and Afro-American oral and literary folk traditions; and, the essential Hughes. (Author/JM)

Article offers nine essentials about teaching composition, essentials creating a classroom environment and rapport conducive to doing writing of merit. (Author/RK)

An address to the ADE in New York, 26 December 1972. (RB)

The most immediate priority for educational reform must be for the establishment of a minimum degree of uniformity in the sequence and hierarchy of instructional and behavioral objectives during the initial stages of learning to decode and encode. (Author)

Research implies that specific variations in teaching methods of composition writing to elementary school pupils can have different and specific effects on quality of compositions. (DS)