Identifies and discusses three goals of career education for young children in Australia: learning how to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living. (CM)

Investigated the development of classificatory organization. Two experiments examined age differences in children's spontaneous extensions of a classification and a third examined children's extensions under hypothesis-testing instructions. (JMB)

Children between the ages of 10 and 11 1/2 years were given a problem in interpersonal persuasion in either a practical or a hypothetical context. Children in the practical context exhibited higher levels of perspectivism than those in the hypothetical context. (JMB)

Twenty-four paper craft projects for elementary school children. (CM)

Four mini-posters featuring imaginary animal characters which can be used by elementary school teachers to reinforce positive classroom behaviors. (CM)

Describes a first grade class project in which the students sold pumpkins at Halloween to raise money for new playground equipment. (JMB)

Presents a checklist to help teachers identify learning disabled children, and describes a child development program which deals effectively with such learning problems. (CM)

A compilation of selected reading games by experienced classroom teachers to send home to parents and help children maintain skills and concepts over the summer. (SS)

A true-false test was administered to a sample of first grade pupils in order to investigate tendency toward acquiescence or dissent in responding to such items. Results indicate that there is a tendency toward acquiescence in some pupils and towards dissent in others. Implications are discussed. (JKS)

Substitute teachers are professional educators, not merely shadows of regular classroom teachers. Here are some suggestions that not only encourage creative teaching but also make the job and the students easier to handle. (Author)

A tongue depressor is the simplest means of introducing weaving to small children short of paper weaving. Describes techniques used by elementary school children in such a project. (Author/RK)

Is it for elementary kids? A district gives some guidelines, a teacher her philosophy. (Editor)

This study examined the relationship between syntax discrimination and other language skills with 50 children each in kindergarten, first grade and second grade. Also, the children were asked to imitate and show comprehension of normal and scrambled grammar sentences. (Author/JH)

To examine the relationship between response accuracy and tempo, as measured by the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF) and criterion measures, 233 7-, 9-, and 11-year-olds were given the MFF, two problem-solving tasks, and a test of academic achievement. (Author/JH)