How to use old magazine and newspaper pictures to help students learn to write realistic dialogue and speeches that characterize. (RB)

Examines pertinent research findings that have appeared in the last half-century. Focus is on the role of grammar in an English syllabus, on the possibility of deliberately teaching the receptive skills of listening and reading, and on the impact of literature courses on students. References. (Author/RB)

Outlined are devices to educate parents about composition concepts," i.e., what there is to learn in learning to write well. (RY)

A review of teaching materials, including filmstrips on writing skills, on Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe; and a review of paperback series on Black literature and contemporary literature--all geared primarily to grades seven through twelve. (JB)

A reply to Abraham Blinderman's Grade Beans, Not Themes" Y English Education," vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring 1970), pp. 159-65I. (RD)

A paper presented at annual Conference on English Education, National Council of Teachers of English (8th, Des Moines, Iowa, April 1970). (Editor)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

Explains techniques used to help students comprehend concepts mentioned in their reading materials. (SW)

Maintains that all rhetoric is "loaded" connotatively, that such loading is neither ethical nor unethical, and that it ought to be used purposefully; revised version of a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Atlanta, November 28, 1970). (Editor/RD)