Describes how a teacher of adult literacy uses group poetry writing with her students to enhance language and critical skills. (SR)

Applies principles of collaborative teaching and learning to an instructional unit on job applications and resumes. Offers advice on collaboration in the classroom. (SR)

Presents suggestions for developing a thematic teaching unit to help students overcome fear by learning about the courage of survivors in literature. The article recommends reading a story aloud, discussing courage and survival of the characters, and developing group-guided reading activities that involve individual or group projects. (SM)

Presents three group activities for elementary school students to help them identify and practice the skill of paraphrasing information to produce their own original reports. Explains recipes for reporting, extracting important words to write their own sentences, and drawing upon one's memory. (LRW)

Offers some ground rules for using collaborative learning effectively in the secondary English class. Describes three assignments involving collaborative effort that the author has used successfully in her teaching. (SR)

Offers an assignment which heightens student awareness of media effects and appropriateness through the simulation experience of planning and executing a persuasive campaign using print, audio and audio-visual media. (MH)

Describes an approach to teaching narrative poetry writing to tenth-grade students. (RL)

Creating a class book can be an effective way to stimulate early elementary students' creativity and self-expression. The six steps are to: introduce the project; create the story; decide who does what; get it down on paper; put it all together; and share the experience. (SM)

Examines the types of games played in the classroom and their competitive nature, discussing the effect of such games on children. Emphasizes the need to choose or develop games that discourage competition, encourage cooperation, and build self-esteem in children. Suggests ideas for innovative activities. (BAC)

Describes cooperative group rotation, in which resource books rotate around all the student groups in a classroom. Notes that students thus have access to a variety of books in a small group setting, participate actively, and use information to create projects that demonstrate knowledge about the subject. (SR)

Describes a way to enliven vocabulary lessons by combining them with two effective teaching strategies--cooperative learning and story development by students. (SR)

Describes how to develop elementary school class activities centered around conflict resolution based on their reading assignments. Discusses how characters resolve conflicts; acting out examples of conflicts; group activities; assessment; and possible extension activities. (LRW)

Suggests ways of bringing poetry into the elementary classroom: matching poems and students; making poetry readings a regular activity; encouraging students to read, recite, or perform poetry; inviting special guests to perform poetry; celebrating holidays, seasons, and special occasions with poems; providing an audience for student poetry; and…

Preschool and elementary school children can participate in pleasurable and worthwhile language experiences through the use of rhythmic group chants. Teachers can select contemporary poems, nursery rhymes, or have children make up their own chants. Provides examples of group chants and sources for chants, rhymes, and poems. (MDM)

In this article, the author presents lively and interesting ideas on renewing children's interest in group-time meetings. Come springtime, teachers usually find that interest is flagging at their class group-time meetings. It is at this time of year that children often need something extra special to inspire and motivate them in the classroom. The…