This fact sheet discusses the role of the school counselor in interventions for school phobia, transient and latchkey children, and children from single parent families. (MCF)

Discusses the possible relationships between reading instruction and five areas of the psychomotor domain--space, laterality, directionality, following directions, and self-concept--and suggests methodological implications for the teaching of reading. (RL)

The behaviors implicit in many boys' sex roles are oppositional to the behaviors required in the student role. The conflict results in the inability of the boy to assume the student role, and may result in his being identified as having an academic and/or behavioral problem. Teacher suggestions are given. (Author/LPG)

Maintains that most discipline problems arise when students are asked to perform beyond their capabilities. Outlines several techniques for teaching social studies to slow learners. Techniques involve students in group reading, simulations, globe and map drills, neighborhood surveys, and art projects. (Author/DB)

Describes features of the Arlington County (Virginia) Extended Day program, which has been in existence for nine years, is designed to provide after-school-hours day care for the elementary school children of working parents, and is in operation in 21 of Arlington's 25 elementary schools. (TA)

Fifth graders manage a booming jewelry business with a $50 bank loan, basic skills and enthusiasm. (Editor)

Lead and learn. Children take charge of skills workshops and interest areas in a room specially designed for their needs. (Editor)

The examples given in this article served as models for the basic principles of "Peer-Mediated Instruction," the focus of six years of classroom research at Teachers College, Columbia University and one approach to the buddy-system of teaching. (Author/RK)

Overviews attempts to integrate language arts and social studies and reviews research on language processes. Discusses types of writing designed to produce active and responsible learners. Describes writing exercises designed to enable students to inventory knowledge; to initiate, consolidate, and personalize learning; and to clarify thinking. (RH)

Investigates schoolchildren's general cognitive and affective development in the area of spelling, specifically aiming to uncover children's own conceptions of spelling, how they reason about orthography, and what strategies they use in deciding how to spell words. (RH)

States that the combination of group rewards (based on group members' individual learning) and peer interaction on learning tasks is necessary to produce learning gains characteristic of effective cooperative learning methods. Discusses research on group contingencies and cooperative learning in the elementary school classroom.(NH)

Examines the influence of prior knowledge on the quality of fourth-grade students' responses to three process-approach tasks: writing, conferencing, and revising. Results suggest that prior knowledge is a significant factor in all phases of process-approach lessons. (NH)

Investigated the comparative effects of a structured group counseling program versus a nondirective program on both emotional adjustment and reading achievement in elementary school students (N=24). Results supported the structured program for improvement of reading comprehension level as well as self-concept, trait-anxiety, and state-anxiety.…

This study collected data via a three-page questionnaire administered to active readers 8 to 12 years old and half-hour taped interviews. Questionnaire findings (general information, interests, recent reading, information network), interview findings (book experience, reading taste, libraries, help in reading material selection, lists, reviews,…

Describes the self-worth theory of achievement motivation, the research generated under this model, and the implications of this research for classroom teaching. Discusses developmental changes in ability perceptions and the conflict between strategies employed by students to maintain a sense of worthiness in the face of failure and the prevailing…