A City Building Education System uses the process of city planning to teach basic reading, writing, and math skills to children from kindergarten through junior high school and to stimulate creative thinking and problem solving abilities. (JMF)

Sketches the historical movement from orality to literacy that Walter J. Ong theorizes, applying it to basic writing instruction for open admissions students. Suggests that teachers first concentrate on narrative and rhetoric to develop writing about particularized details, saving sentence control exercises such as sentence combining for…

Inner city students are leaving high school without satisfactory English language skills. The blame for this must be shared among parents, teachers, administrators, students, and society at large. (RLV)

Methods for teaching writing skills are described. Techniques include utilizing writing exercises as they present themselves in content courses, establishing an honor system, individualized instruction, and repeated practice sessions focusing on specific writing skills. (LH)

Suggests that teachers of developmental reading classes should not ignore the subjective side of reading development. (MKM)

Discusses negative public attitudes toward writing and English classes and suggests a positive response. (MKM)

Describes the use of an instructional model for composition involving five procedures: a rationale, instructional objectives, pre-assessment, learning activities, and evaluation. (MKM)

Describes how the authors gradually changed their methods of teaching chemistry to mixed-ability groups. (Editor/RK)

Examined effects of combining cross-age tutoring, peer tutoring, cooperative learning, and computer-mediated writing in a peer-assisted learning package on writing skills of second through sixth graders with learning disabilities. Found that the treatment group enjoyed working with partners, asked each other for help, had friendships extending…

Describes a mentoring program between an elementary school and a corporation that connects fifth and sixth grade students with adults who exchange email messages at least once a week to improve students' writing skills. Discusses benefits to students and offers suggestions for starting an electronic mentoring program. (LRW)

Determines business department chairs' ratings of topics typically covered in the business communication course. Indicates that department chairs perceive writing skills to be more important to business communication courses than other communication skills, such as speaking, technology-mediated communication, interpersonal communication,…

Discusses a study that investigated the use of word processing for literacy teaching in primary schools in Great Britain. Considers the use of word processing and the attempts to integrate other information and communication technologies into schools; enhancing the curriculum; and shifting focus away from technology and toward the development of…

Describes how one teacher dealt with a rebellious sophomore Honors English student and how they learned to listen to each other. (MG)

Shares some of the things learned during interviews and observations of three English teachers focusing on the role of planning in the teaching process. (MG)

Examines the relationship between cohesion and coherence in children's writing. Finds evidence of a relationship between cohesion and coherence, and reports that this relationship (1) varies according to text content; (2) does not vary according to quality of writing; and (3) does not vary according to the students' grade level. (KEH)