"Children as Researchers in Primary Schools" is an innovative and unique resource for practitioners supporting children to become "real world" researchers in the primary classroom. It will supply you with the skills and ideas you need to implement a "children as researchers" framework in your school that can be adapted for different ages and…

"Cradling Literacy" provides field-tested instructional materials for instructors to help early childhood teachers develop knowledge and skills in nurturing early language and literacy in young children from birth to 5 years. The research and strategies presented in the instructional manual center on how child, parent, and teacher can work…

The chapters in "Explorations in Second Language Reading" reveal the importance of reading in the classroom and how instructors can use reading as a bridge to improve learners' other linguistic and interpersonal skills. Most significantly, each author prompts us to rediscover how enjoyable ESOL reading can be and how it can increase learner…

Presents a list of teaching aids and class activity suggestions for honoring the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Editor/SJL)

Presents several pages of stories, plays, songs, and activities that capture the spirit of the holiday season. (MP)

By helping children to form positive thinking and learning habits, and to develop a range of transferable skills, we give them the tools they need to become successful learners. This book is grounded in the best of current practice and theories surrounding thinking and learning skills. It provides a highly effective method for introducing a…

Ideas for educational games in the elementary school classroom. (M)

Gives ideas for expanding eighth graders' interest in the newspaper beyond the comics and the sports and theater sections. (RB)

Suggests class activities to increase interest and improve reading skills in basal reading programs. (RB)

Contains suggestions for materials, activities, and resources for use in teaching literature--especially plays and novels--to elementary school students. (RB)

This article describes and presents a simulation game about pregnancy utilized in a senior college class on human sexuality. (RC)

An explanation is given of the uses of graphs for conveying information pictorially. Picture, bar, line, and area graphs are illustrated. Graphing projects for science, social studies, mathematics, economics, and language arts are listed, and teaching tips are suggested. (FG)

Play dough is the perfect medium for creating, observing, and thinking about change. Whether the use of play dough is seen as play or a demonstration of physics, through its use children learn about transformations of consistency, color, and identity; and teachers observe how young children learn. (LB)

Contains a pull out section of ideas, activities, and resources useful to elementary and secondary teachers instructing students on writing for magazines, what to do with the mass media, how to plan field trips, and how to stimulate exercises by presenting sense experiences. (RB)

Describes a teaching method which included using the newspaper as part of the instructional materials in a secondary remedial reading class. (RB)