Describes a plan for promoting student questions for developing students' abilities to ask other than fact questions. (MM)

Debate can be used instructionally as a systematic, orderly procedure for resolving conflicts and teaching students the importance of judgments adequately supported by facts. (MM)

Presents a brief history of puppetry, discusses two approaches to the preparation of a puppet play, and provides instructions for building puppet characters. (RB)

Explains how a volume of poetic images entitled The Tiniest Sound'' by Mel Evans was used to stimulate creative writing in the sixth grade. (MM)

Relates poetry to journalism, as a kind, or several kinds, of reporting with several of the author's own poems illustrating the thesis. Suggestions for stimulating student poetry writing are given. (TO)

Reports on a program which began in Coventry, England and is unique in its use of the actor-teacher--a person who is trained or experienced in both theatre and education--to stimulate classroom interest in drama. (RB)

Presents a technique for improving pupils' language by studying idioms. (RB)

Describes activities for developing listening skills in preschool. (MM)

To make a spelling program more effective, use the children's spelling tests to analyse their errors and indicate spelling patterns. (JH)

The assumptions underlying the two common approaches to composition instruction are examined. (JH)

A multimedia approach that integrates spelling into all language arts skills is thought to be a superior method of spelling instruction. (JH)

Writing poetry can be a positive channel for self expression, so long as children are not forced to write. (JH)

After a short discussion of what body language is and does, suggests nineteen activities that can be used to increase children's awareness of the importance of kinesics to communication. (TO)