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Curriculum Review, 1980
Reviewed are eight recent instructional kits, supplementary texts, and professional references for K-8 library and study skills instruction. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Talmage, Harriet – Curriculum Review, 1981
This article is designed to help textbook selection committees and personnel make better choices of instructional materials. It outlines the types of information selectors will need about their own districts' curriculum and characteristics and presents a chart for design analysis of this data which can be used in textbook evaluation. (SJL)
Descriptors: Charts, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Curriculum Review, 1980
Reviewed are 12 recent instructional kits, supplementary texts, and professional references for library and study skills instruction in the secondary grades. (SJL)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Research Skills
Talmage, Harriet – Curriculum Review, 1981
Presents a three-phase process for selecting instructional materials: (1) screening materials; (2) matching screened materials to identified district characteristics and needs; and (3) decision-making. Part I of this three-part article appeared in "Curriculum Review," January 1981, pp9-14. (SJL)
Descriptors: Charts, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Osborn, Jean – Curriculum Review, 1987
Describes "A Guide to Selecting Basal Reading Programs," which was developed to help textbook adoption committees select basal reading texts in elementary schools. Topics discussed include development of booklets that describe various aspects of reading instruction and the role of the guidelines in improving the quality of basal reading…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Check Lists, Elementary Education, Guidelines
Curriculum Review, 1979
The 24 reviews in this article include textbooks on journalism and media studies; multimedia kits on advertising, TV news, reporting, and the "grammar" of media; resources on making ad interpreting films in the classroom; supplements on writing for both print and nonprint media; and professional references on improving visual literacy. (Editor)
Descriptors: Film Study, Instructional Materials, Journalism, Learning Modules
Curriculum Review, 1981
Reviews 23 recent texts, supplements, and professional references for gifted and creative instruction at various grade levels, K-l2. Several of the titles concern education in the arts and the humanities. Appended is an index to other reviews of gifted materials which have appeared in this magazine. (SJL)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Art Education, Book Reviews, Class Activities
Curriculum Review, 1979
Reviews 22 kits, texts, supplements, and professional references for various grade levels on energy resources, environmental values and decision making, ecology, and solar power. (SJL)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy
Talmage, Harriet – Curriculum Review, 1981
Using the conceptual scheme outlined in Parts I and II of this article (appearing in the January and April 1981 issues of this magazine), the author presents guidelines for librarian/teacher cooperation in the selection of supplementary materials which coordinate with basic class texts. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Charts, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
