Suggests an activity that helps students see the relationship of suffixes to particular parts of speech. (TJ)

A brief look at teaching students how to write letters and at using letters as instructional tools in the junior high and high school English classroom. (RL)

This guide contains a short introduction on the value of teaching poetry in elementary school and some ideas on how it should be taught. The guide presents seven classroom activities to make poetry come alive. Seven figures illustrating the activities are included. (MS)

Describes how to use a trivia game to instill academic knowledge in high school students. (DD)

Discusses several approaches that students have found helpful for analyzing "Jane Eyre," including point of view, comparison, character development, language, imagery and symbolism, and the novel's elements of autobiography. (HTH)

Outlines the teaching of Edward Thomas' poetry over a six-week period. (SRT)

Describes an etymology lesson in which students study the derivation of their surnames. (FL)

Provides a guide for teaching Edwin Morgan's poem, "O Pioneers!" (TJ)

Designed to encourage students to discover that grammar merely represents the patterns that exist in language, this book presents lessons on 19 grammar points: nouns; pronouns; verbs; subjects; capitalization; end punctuation; commas; sentence fragments; run-on sentences; contractions; possessives; quotation marks; adjectives; adverbs;…

Discusses the teaching of "Bleak House" to students who are daunted by its length and complexity. Provides suggestions on how to get beyond those complexities and allow students to understand the central concerns of the book. (SRT)

Relates the experience of hearing what sounds can achieve to echo, enforce, and enrich meaning in the teaching of poetry. (HOD)

Notes the similarities in the processes of coaching junior high school football and teaching high school English. (RL)

Describes simple prereading activities and questioning techniques for improving comprehension in English. Many of the ideas could be adapted by other subject area teachers. (Author/SJL)

Suggests teaching Bernard Malamud's novel, "The Natural," because it is a work of a powerful imagination; can be used to stimulate searches into history, literature, and myth; and can be a catalyst for student writing. Describes several approaches to studying the book. (TJ)