Basic skills -- Cooperative learning -- Authentic assessment -- Multiage grouping -- Multiculturalism -- Oral language -- Dramatic play -- Grammar and usage -- Language acquisition -- Bilingual education -- ESL (English as a second language) -- Emergent literacy -- Environmental print -- Trade books -- Pattern books and predictable books -- Literature-based reading programs -- Response to literature -- Media literacy -- Writing workshop -- Freewriting -- Process writing -- Invented spelling -- Poetry -- Literature across disciplines -- Integrated language arts -- Thematic units -- Family literacy