Writing and Skills

ABSTRACT. The 32 articles, in this book, contributed'by teachers from all educational levels,- offer practical suggestions for teaching basic language.skills. The articles are grouped into-six sections: (1) classroom ideas for strengthening-teading skills of elementary, secondary, and.college students; (2) methods'for introducing basic composition skills such as the analysis, summary, evaluatidt, outlining, ard documentation of 'ideas; (3) techniques for teaching two essential but often overlooked steps in writing; (4) approaches for dealing ' with sdme of the finer points of punctuation, spelling,--and grammar (specifically, sentence combining and sentence modeling); (5)texercises to teach-elementary students how to litten, to encourage divergent thinking in secondary students, and to teach discussion skills; and (6) methods for.sharpening students, skills in criticism and fox1 promoting appreciatipn of literature and film. UNO *-Documents acquired by. ERIC include many.informal unpublished