Briefly describes a program used in the Hazelwood School District in Missouri. (JM)

Suggestions are given for assignments designed to improve general writing skills in conjunction with traditional physical education activities. (LH)

Defines five modes of writing found in freshman readers, lists percentages of the total selections in 11 current composition readers that fall into each of the five categories, and concludes that few readers are suitable for the kind of service freshman English classes should be providing. (DD)

Suggests that oral interpretation units in language arts courses have value in themselves in addition to their value in helping students improve their writing skills. (DD)

Argues that both oral and visual language acquisition may be innate human functions and calls for the examination of current reading programs in this light. (FL)

Describes a technique, the "Guided Writing Procedure," for integrating content teaching and writing improvement. Provides a series of sequential steps for implementing the procedure. (TJ)

Suggestions are made for classroom activities to improve children's language skills. (JD)

Recruitment of underprepared students, the policy of social promotion in the grades, and declining achievement of high school students--as measured by standardized tests--seem to be resulting in declining writing abilities among college students. Implications for college instruction and educational research are discussed. (LBH)

Offers a method of substituting new words for the words in a well-known phrase to demonstrate the power of syntax. (TJ)

Students practiced their reading and writing skills as they made inquiries as to how certain towns acquired their unusual names. (Includes information about the names of numerous towns.) (MKM)

Points out that writing errors of journalism students can result from faulty thought patterns involving thinking in sentence fragments, personifying objects, using bureaucratic abstractions, and condensing complex ideas; examines ways of dealing with bureaucratic coding and compressed sentences. (Conclusion of a two-part article.) (GT)

Suggests the use of William Carlos Williams' poem, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," as a way of demonstrating the use of punctuation to change the meaning of a piece of writing. (TJ)

Stresses the importance of teaching students to revise and suggests a way to teach revising as part of class discussion. (TJ)

Suggests a method for helping students learn to revise their papers by carrying out a series of assigned tasks either individually or in groups. (TJ)

Proposes a formula for helping students learn to write paragraphs by requiring highly disciplined and limited material and sentences until students have acquired skills that permit more variety. (TJ)