Presents 19 guidelines for developing children's comprehension skills, addressed to elementary teachers and to parents of preschoolers (53 references). (SJL)

Included in this publication for parents and teachers are over 30 anecdotes that serve as suggestions for varied science activities for young people. The first section presents the objectives and organizing the learning environment. The second section presents a variety of ways to help children explore their environment. The last section suggests…

Intended for use in parent education activities, the manual presents guidelines for making 24 instructional toys and lesson plans for using the toys with preschool handicapped children. Each toy is presented in terms of an illustration, a list of specific skills to be developed by the child using the toy, materials needed, time required to make…

Presented are the rationale and description of the curriculum objectives developed for the Adaptive Beginning-School Learning Environment Program (ABLE). Included are brief discussions of: an analysis of the historical backgrounds and theoretical assumptions and approaches of extant preschool programs; the rationale for designing the ABLE program…

Intended for Head Start personnel, the manual outlines a recruitment campaign for identifying and enrolling children who have health impairments requiring special education and related services. Briefly covered are the following topics: rationale for the recruitment compaign; targets of recruitment (which include Head Start families, the general…

Intended for use by local Head Start programs, the manual is designed to facilitate and improve the integration of components in the delivery of services to handicapped children and their families. The document is divided into four units, each designed for use as a 1 1/2-hour staff session. Unit I focuses on the issues of defining and clarifying…

Provides purchasing tips for programs on a tight budget. Topics include writing specifications for the merchandise needed, finding and developing sources (vendors), receiving and analyzing bids, writing purchase orders, and receiving merchandise. (CM)

The project was designed to develop an alternate testing method for the visual acuity assessment of preschool children with handicaps. Additional project objectives included evaluation and modification of existing experimental procedures for discrimination training and visual acuity testing of preschool handicapped children; establishment of a…

Designed to help parents meet the extra needs of preschool handicapped children, the booklet provides information and practical suggestions for dealing with self image, creativity, and discipline. Described are activities to develop basic communication, self help, physical, social and academic skills. An additional chapter briefly reviews…

This pamphlet suggests methods of teaching beginning reading using word cards, stories written by a parent, and phonics games. Activities using word cards include writing the name of a person or object on the card and helping the child associate that card directly with the person or object. Stories written by parents usually feature the children…

The language development activities suggested in this pamphlet are designed to involve parents of five-year-old children in the development of the children's capacity to learn. Arranged by general time frames, the suggested activities are accompanied by the expected learning outcomes, such as using action words effectively in sentences, using…

The self evaluation guide for programs serving blind and visually handicapped students focuses on standards for preschool services. Addressed are seven topics: planning and organization, personnel, early identification and case finding, child assessment, family-directed services, instructional program, and program evaluation. (CL)

A four week course in television programming and production for very young children was attended by 13 representatives from ten countries in the Asian-Pacific area. The first part of the course was devoted to presentations by the participants describing the television programs in their countries and the presentation and discussion of about 80…

As part of a series of publications reporting the promising practices gleaned from pre-elementary Right to Read programs, this guidebook introduces its readers to the format used to describe the promising practices, provides statistical and descriptive information about the pre-elementary Right to Read programs, and describes each of the four…

This program description contains goals and objectives for five mathematics curriculum levels: three- and four-year-olds, five-year-olds, six- and seven-year-olds, eight- and nine-year-olds, and ten- and eleven-year-olds. A mathematics program overview for Smith College Campus School and a discussion of considerations for mathematics curriculum…