Represents an exchange of "official notices" on the uses and misuses of workbooks in the teaching of writing. (MKM)

This article provides the physical education instructor with important guidelines that should be followed when developing exercise programs for children with asthma. (IAH)

Presents a worksheet that asks students to describe themselves as writers. (MM)

Describes an approach for teaching "The Diary of Anne Frank" to secondary school students, focusing on historical and emotional preparation, and writing prompts for the play. (MM)

This study was designed to elicit concepts and practices of democracy and accountability from education practitioners--graduate students who are teachers and leaders in schools and who are differently positioned as workers in higher education systems. The author's intention was to prompt active and reflective thinking on the part of the students…

Discusses the following: designing the review for the end of the school year using the example of "English for You 2," lessons 61 and 62; exercises in vocabulary review and orthography; and hints on written language practice and grammar review. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Children become frustrated in learning cursive writing, says the author, who offers some helpful suggestions. (Editor/RK)

According to composition researcher Ken Macrorie, the student research paper violates the pedagogical premise that writing skills are best learned when the writer says something he or she really believes in, for a specific purpose, to a well-defined audience. The problem is not solved by simply telling students that their classmates as well as…

It is possible to reconcile two supposedly warring viewpoints toward composition pedagogy: that writers know what they want to say before they begin writing (a viewpoint that stresses the communicative function of writing), and that writers discover what they have to say in the act of saying it (a viewpoint that focuses on the heuristic value of…

Advertisements can be effective stimuli for creative writing.

Suggests several teaching techniques which encourage creative independent writing by providing needed structure. (DD)