The purpose of this Digest is to explore the evidence suggesting the effectiveness of literacy instruction through communicative and visual arts. It discusses the communicative and visual arts in literacy instruction; television and multiple media as instructional tools; using dramatic activities in language arts classrooms; and teaching language…

This companion volume to "Novels and Plays" contains 30 detailed teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. Twenty of the guides are new to this edition and the others have been updated with fresh related readings, extension resources, and revised questions and activities. Guides are organized according to the…

This document contains issues of "Teachers Magazine" from September 1913 to June 1914, published monthly, except July and August. Issues typically include sections with music, plays, songs, poems, and games; a calendar for the month; monthly plans; and sections on picture study; current-events classroom talks; grade work; hygiene; home…

This document contains issues of "Teachers Magazine" from September 1912 to June 1913, published monthly, except July and August. Issues typically include sections with music, plays, songs, poems, and games; a calendar for the month; monthly plans; and sections on picture study; current-events classroom talks; grade work; hygiene; home…

This annual feature reviews events and happenings in New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Francisco-Bay Area, and Los Angeles. (JM)

Focuses on the role of consultants from the school of liberal arts in the Training Trainers of Teachers process at City College in New York City to several New York City elementary schools. Triple T is a federally funded project intended to provide models for reform in the content and structure of teacher education, as well as reorganize and…

Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association and the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Rochester, New York, March 31, 1973. (HW)

Profiles several little-known black playwrights active over a century ago: James Brown, Ira Aldridge, Victor Sejour, and William Wells Brown. (JM)

Traditional language teaching has emphasized study to the exclusion of exercise and performance. It is recommended here that the true language laboratory be the drama studio, which gives scope and impulse to every form of linquistic expression, and which has a great range of resources, media and modes of activity. (Author/JB)

Author suggests a study of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People" as relevant to contemporary concerns of pollution and persecution. (MB)

In an effort to determine whether there is a place for fictional religious themes in the social studies, students are asked to compete for an award based on their reaction to the story "Bonshe the Silent . (AP)

Author discusses Shaw's The Apple Cart" as typically Shavian in content and style. (MB)