Recounts how linking "Hamlet" to modern horrors and adventures stimulated student interest in the play. (JL)

Relates one teacher's experiences while teaching literature and composition to prison inmates. (HOD)

Presented is a very short story about a visit to an unknown, imaginary planet. The story is designed to provoke creative artistic responses from elementary level children in an art education class. (KC)

Describes an end-of-the-term project in which students were encouraged to write for a specific, actual audience. (FL)

Suggests how to reduce student passivity in large-enrollment college level classes by directing students to participate in a social survey which involves research replication. (Author/DB)

The physical environment of the learning disabilities classroom is an important factor in shaping student attitudes toward learning and toward themselves. Five dimensions to consider in analyzing a classroom include visual signs, auditory messages, kinesthetic input, tactile input, and awareness of time (i.e., seasons, current events, and student…

Describes two projects to involve vocational-technical students in English instruction. Suggests ways to use graduation and yearbooks in end-of-the-year English activities. (JT)

Using the design and production of a ceramic container as a student activity, the authors present a method to involve industrial arts students in creative problem solving. Students are provided with a problem that requires them to inventory their industrial arts facilities and available materials to solve the problem. (CT)

The article presents a technique for motivating and teaching the unmotivated reader with special reference to deaf students. A case study is presented illustrating how cognitive level questions can be incorporated into an original story developed by the teacher to motivate such students. (Author/DLS)

Urges reading teachers to use simulations and provides some examples. (HOD)

A teacher explains her technique for ensuring that her remedial reading students are following the text as she reads aloud to them. (SJL)

Describes how series books such as "Nancy Drew,""The Hardy Boys," and Horatio Alger stories can be the basis for lessons on critical reading. (MKM)

Describes questioning techniques and other approaches that stimulate class discussion and lead to better student writing. (DD)

Describes innovative techniques for including members of the student body in yearbook planning and for motivating students to buy copies of the yearbook. (GT)

Uses anecdotes to illustrate suggestions on how to involve reluctant learners in the study of English. (DD)