Explores the fluctuating but hierarchical nature of the educational roles and relationships between parent, teacher, and child. Suggests collaboration as an organizational alternative. (HTH)

Explores the three broad thrusts of literature curricula, noting that no test can cover all three. Discusses how the content and objectives of the literature curriculum can be specified and how test questions can be developed for the evaluation of literature comprehension. (HTH)

Reviews "Key Lingo" (vocabulary practice in adventure setting), "Watch Your Speech" (practice identifying parts of speech), and "WordWork" (challenging word game to stimulate reading and spelling skills). Includes computer needed, manufacturer, current price, and detailed evaluation of the software. (JN)

Writing skills can be reinforced when students work together to create a classroom novel. Examples of how a language arts class developed a character by brainstorming, then wrote and revised their story to be shared with others, are given. (DF)

Examines language arts software that is designed for use by young children. (FL)

Reviews two vocabulary improvement programs that have recently been introduced. (FL)

Suggestions are made to help the regular classroom teacher maximize instructional time for mainstreamed learning disabled students. Suggestions cover general classroom organization, language arts instruction, and math instruction. Recommendations focus on incidental learning. (CL)

Reviews: (1) "Galaxy Search" (reading skills game); (2) "Spellagraph" (rebus game providing effective drill of spelling words in context); and (3) "Reading Comprehension Skills 3" (provides drill of sounds and words and practice with reading comprehension skills). Includes computer needed, manufacturer, current price,…

Reports substantial discrepancies between publishers' estimates and independent estimates of the readability of secondary school-level language arts textbooks. (FL)

"The Puzzler," which operates on Apple microcomputers, is designed to assist the teacher as an integral part of classroom reading and language arts instruction. This program is reviewed in terms of eight characteristics considered to be features of the best special-purpose reading tools. (JN)

Discusses the technical and economic developments in hardware and software that affect the language arts teacher. (AEA)

Urges teachers to leave an expressive domain for the young child's writing, in which the audience is the young child. (DD)

Describes language-arts activities in the "Gemini Project," a program designed to foster creative expression in a mixed group of senior high and elementary school students. (KS)

The book, "Jaws", was used to develop reading skills, idiomatic expressions and problem solving skills with eight deaf junior high school students. (PT)