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Prepared as part of a series applying recent research in oral and written communication instruction to classroom practice, this booklet focuses on how children and young adults make meaning in speech and writing and on ways teachers can encourage their language development. Following a brief introduction, the first major section of the booklet analyzes communication competence according to four principles: (1) sensitivity to situational factors, including medium of communication, function, setting, topic, discourse process, and audience; (2) flexibility; (3) performance; and (4) feedback. The second section discusses the school as a communication context and examines the different speaking and writing situations students encounter daily. The third presents a model of communication development stressing social awareness, coding, and reconstruction of experience, and the fourth section examines the interdependence among these dimensions. The concluding section discusses teaching for communication competence. Examples of student work are included throughout the booklet. (FL)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert