States that language arts teachers should be agents for personal growth and development. Suggests using an extensive poetry project as as avenue to personal transformation. (EL)

Presents an example of student's bad poetry and suggests ways in which a teacher may encourage a student to develop his or her writing poetry skills. (DF)

Describes 12 collections and anthologies, many of them bilingual editions and published in Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States, that include poems by Spanish and Latin American poets. Provides tentative grade levels for each selection. (HOD)

Reviews new picture books, poetry, stories, and nonfiction works and provides age-level indicators for each. (EL)

To assess the effects of textual variation on students' preferred patterns of literary response, 166 college students were asked to read two poems and two short stories. The findings provided support for the notion that students' preferred patterns of response are strongly influenced by the nature of the texts they read. (HOD)

Discusses criteria to use when evaluating poetry written by children and contains numerous examples of poetry written by children. (DF).

Provides an annotated book list for use by elementary school teachers. Emphasizes children's involvement in word play and word games as a means to strengthen the language arts program. Specific areas covered include word play and word games, riddles, jokes, rhymes and verse, sounds and words, and word histories. (DST)

Presents two criticisms of Gopen's essay on why the study of poetry is the best preparation for the study of law. Includes Gopen's response. (HTH)

Outlines a method for introducing poetry to two-year college students, many of whom have negative feelings about poetry after years of schooling that required them to read bad poems and that presented explication as a puzzling, frustrating activity. (FL)

Presents annotated music selections for augmenting English literature courses. (HTH)

Selected from the books of 1984 in the fiction, picture books, nonfiction, and poetry categories. (CRH)

Suggests that readers participate in literary texts by creating and perceiving voices in the work. (HOD)

Considering the computer as a collaborator rather than a machine, it is encouraged that those in the humanities and the arts fields take advantage of the great potential that artificial intelligence can offer. Stresses that unless deliberately restricted, the computer is an inherently interdisciplinary medium, and capable of interacting with any…

Annotates 108 titles chosen by children as the best of 1984. (FL)

Suggests that classroom exploration of the renga, a chain poem developed in eighth-century Japan, can awaken students' sense of the choices and constraints in writing. (MM)