Teachers of remedial urban students must make them aware that they create their own valid order and meaning through language. (DD)

An interim "In Progress" (IP) grade is suggested to replace D's and F's in remedial composition courses. (JH)

Recounts how a teacher strove to give her remedial writing students a sense of self-worth as a prerequisite to improve their writing. (JL)

Describes one teacher's experiences with several "turned-off" high school students. (DD)

Shows that the compulsion for neatness in students' in-class writing assignments is something that teachers should resist. (RL)

Advocates using "classics" to teach remedial English classes. Outlines several misconceptions about teaching the classics to lower-ability students, and recommends several selections which can be used in remedial classes. (MM)

Describes a research project in which students investigate a personal "bad" habit. (MM)

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the Center for Applied Linguistics; includes ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic. (RD)

Describes a remedial writing class in which students learned organizational skills by cutting up and rearranging their own freewriting on a particular topic. (JL)

Describes a summer school remedial writing class' experiences writing children's stories. Discusses the reactions of children at an abused-children's shelter to the stories. Notes that the students increased their self-worth and confidence as a result of writing children's stories. (RS)

Recounts a teacher's relationship with a problem 16-year old whose reading and writing skills lagged far behind his age group. Holds out the possibility of inch-by-inch progress for even the most difficult students and the prospect of a mutually satisfying relationship for even those teachers and students who do not seem to get along initially.…

Reviews of articles selected from various other publications that may be of interest to readers of the English Journal": strategy for keeping a job in today's schools; how and where to publish an article; methods for creative teaching; teaching non achievers; etc. (RB)

Describes the whole language "way of being" from the perspective of a department chair teaching remedial 9th-grade and honors 12th-grade students. Considers how whole language fits into standardized testing programs, what students take away from whole language, what its general characteristics are, and how it fits with student learning patterns…

Explains how a teacher came to develop her own version of the whole language approach through her experimentation with remedial students in the 1970s. Makes a case for student research and inquiry into issues that matter to them personally, in lieu of traditional research of classic writers. (TB)

Consider need for new pedagogy to address reading needs of high school students. Discusses different kinds of instruction used in a summer remedial program including instruction in: reading strategies; phonics and study skills; reciprocal teaching; grade level content; writing strategies; and rubrics. Concludes that students also need to…