The paper describes specific techniques developed for utilizing tap dance and creative movement to facilitate speech, language, and auditory training in children with communication disorders. The integration of auditory training with speech and language activities is noted, as is the importance of incorporating movement, sound, rhythm, and…

The teaching activity presented in this paper focuses on giving students in grades four through seven a headstart on future computer classes, and provides a practical way for students to use language and logic. The paper presents a step-by-step lesson in flowcharting, including discussions of the special purposes for various shapes in a chart,…

Young children have certain predictable responses to books. (JH)

Relates poetry to journalism, as a kind, or several kinds, of reporting with several of the author's own poems illustrating the thesis. Suggestions for stimulating student poetry writing are given. (TO)

Article described activities designed to help children perceive their world and express themselves orally and in writing. (Editor/RK)

Report of a Subject-Field Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

THE SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEFINED THE SUPERIOR STUDENT AS ONE WHO COULD ASSOCIATE AND INTERRELATE CONCEPTS AND COULD CRITICALLY EVALUATE FACTS AND ARGUMENTS. HE COULD CREATE NEW IDEAS AND ORIGINATE NEW LINES OF THOUGHT, HE HAD THE ABILITY TO REASON COMPLEX PROBLEMS THROUGH AS WELL AS TO UNDERSTAND OTHER SITUATION, OTHER TIMES, AND OTHER PEOPLE.…

Inductive teaching (leading learners to see a generalization for themselves) has the advantages of being effective in that students retain the knowledge longer than when it has been gained in other ways, of being fun because students are actively involved in the process, and of being a way to learn about language through generalizing principles.…

Children's poetry no longer connotes holidays, nonsense, moral dicta, or the what's, why's, and how's of life, connotations that have frequently stereotyped poetry as sissy, baby, or boring stuff. Children's poems of the seventies suggest that any simple subject has become the province of a poem, including such topics as mud, oil slicks, sharks,…