Uses the planning, drafting, aligning, revising, and monitoring model, as conceived by R.J.Tierney and D.Pearson in their reading-writing relationship theory, as the basis for considering television viewing processes or a viewer protocol. (JK)

The use of a videodisc series on history is used as an example of their potential for the classroom. Other examples are drawn from art, language arts, and science. Information on authoring systems for videodiscs has been tabulated, and a directory of archival videodiscs is included. (MNS)

Surveys the fleeting place of composition instruction in elementary schools during the 1800s. (HTH)

Focuses on the uses of sand in reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities in preschool and the primary grades. (BB)

No language is as varied in history as American English and no language is as rich in word choices. Additions to our language from other cultures are discussed. Four categories of activities involving words are presented. (MT)

Contains curriculum-oriented activities on various aspects of dog and cat care. Organizes the exercises by reading levels and identifies each activities-related subject and skills area. Includes student work sheets that can be duplicated for classroom use. (ML)

Reports results of a survey investigating the amount of attention (page space) devoted to drama in textbooks, and identifies commonly presented topics. (VLC)

Interviews Gordon Wells of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada. Wells extends the concept of children negotiating with people in their environment to create meaning to teachers taking control of their own learning and in so doing facilitating children's taking control of their own learning. (HTH)

Describes an informal classroom research project that explored how children perceive the changes they make in their writing and what they think about when they write. (HTH)

Interviews Jan Turbull about her work with writing teachers in the St. George Writing Project in Australia. (HTH)

Lists the ways that incorporating a programmable robot into an elementary school curriculum improves students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. (AEA)

Notes how the current emphasis on language instruction perpetuates the dominant culture. Explores the meanings first-grade children take from their oral language learning experiences and considers possible implications of those meanings and of the resistance shown by students to this production and reproduction of culture. (HTH)

Describes fourth graders' observations and hypotheses about the sun and moon and how the three-dimensional reality gradually replaced the inadequate two-dimensional models of textbooks. Discusses implications for instruction of this progression from concrete to abstract. (HTH)

Describes the mentor program of the Teachers College Writing Project of New York City. (HTH)

An interdisciplinary unit on investigation guides gifted students up to age 14 through problem solving activities in language arts, mathematics, science, and social sciences. (CL)