Teachers can confront issues of students' infrequent reading and infrequent choice of content area texts by using specific instructional strategies that are highly motivating. Five research-based language arts strategies that many teachers use to successfully teach content area information are: (1) previewing vocabulary and content; (2) developing…

Offers case studies of "problem" students who have been motivated to learn through their interest in and talent for artistic expression. Suggests ways teachers can channel students' interests in productive ways; e.g., Individual Idea Logs (to record fantasies, doodles, inventions) and five-minute drawing breaks. (DMM)

Intended as a guide for teachers, this book discusses ways to exploit the intersections between the visual and the verbal to teach writing. Chapter 1, "Seeing Writing in a Visual World" (Eric H. Hobson), establishes the book's major premises. Chapter 2, "Postcards: Inside/Out" (Joseph F. Trimmer), describes engaging students in a whole course of…