Examines the relationship between paradigmatic and syntagmatic word knowledge. Familiar concrete nouns were administered in Spanish and English to bilingual students. Students were tested on the ability to provide superordinates, adequate definitions, and object descriptions. Producing superordinates in Spanish was a reliable predictor of the same…

Most students find poetry easier to write if they have some kind of framework for their words. Teachers are given a guide for helping students in middle grades write poetry, utilizing animals and their characteristics as a framework. A reproducible activity sheet is provided. (IAH)

The article describes innovative activities for presenting legal principles to fifth- and sixth-grade students involving the importance of rules and rulemaking. (CB)

Examined correlates and predictors of leadership in school-age female groups. Subjects were fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade girls enrolled in 16 Girl Scout troops. Leadership and personal characteristics were measured. Found a consistent relationship between leadership status and a managerial leadership style. Long-term informal leadership was…

Fourteen mathematics problems from the 1987 Chinese Primary School Mathematics Examination for fifth and sixth grade students are presented. The word problems, accompanied by answers, involve algebra, division, ratios, areas, and other mathematical processes. (JDD)

Reports on an ethnographic study of the five sixth-grade students who participate in a drama workshop in their school district. Suggests that the specificity of the answers of the students and the depth of their connections to reading, speaking, and real world applications in school depicted students' higher levels of thinking. (SR)

Presents a set of criteria (formulated by students) for evaluating student projects. Notes that the method is called "FINE" (Facts, Interesting, Neatness, Effort). (SR)

Sixth-grade students were given eight minutes per assignment to work computation problems on a mathematics assignment containing 25 four-digit by one-digit problems and an assignment containing 25 similar problems plus nine interspersed one-digit plus one-digit problems. When given a choice for a third assignment, students chose the one with more…

Explores the ways in which 11- and 12-year-old students used intertextuality within diverse literacy events in a classroom context. Reveals different patterns of intertextual connections depending on discourse mode (oral or written) and the functional context of discourse (literary or informational) in terms of the types of sources to which…

An extension of G. L. Cates et al. (2003) investigation was conducted to determine if students' cumulative learning rates would be superior for words read under a traditional drill and practice condition (as they were for spelling in the previous study) than under interspersal conditions of varying ratios of unknown to known words. Participants…

In 1993 Lake Agassiz School in North Dakota received a Knight Foundation grant so teachers and students could participate in a program to learn how to create an opera. The program instructed teachers on how students could maximize their understanding about producing an opera. The school formed a partnership with the Metropolitan Opera Guild of New…

The effects of a 14 week creativity training program (the Purdue Creative Thinking Program) on the creativity in written expression of 25 learning disabled (LD) students (11 to 12 years old) was measured. The program consisted of 28 audio tapes and printed exercises designed to foster divergent thinking in areas of verbal and figural fluency,…

THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS POSSESSED BY INTERMEDIATE GRADE TEACHERS OF INDIAN CHILDREN. TO BE EFFECTIVE WITH INDIAN CHILDREN, INTERMEDIATE GRADE TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE WARMTH, SUPPORTIVENESS, AN UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY, AND AN ENCOURAGING APPROACH. IN ADDITION, THEY SHOULD HAVE INSERVICE TRAINING AND BE AWARE OF BILINGUAL…