Shaping behavior by reinforcing a series of successive approximations is discussed, and procedures for promoting internal shaping in children are described. Instructions are given for the "shaping game," by which parents and children can learn the techniques. (CL)

Puppetry has four major benefits as an aid in regular and special education: as a motivational strategy, an instructional tool in the curriculum, a remedial and therapeutic device, and an entertainment and recreational tool. (CL)

Advance organizers, activities used before the learning task, can help mainstreamed learning disabled adolescents organize information more efficiently. Ten steps for developing advance organizers proceed from informing students to introducing vocabulary and stating the general outcome desired. This approach is easy to implement and may result in…

The article provides six suggestions for preschool teachers with visually handicapped children in their classes. Suggestions are also given for classmates' guiding a blind child. (PHR)

The article presents a technique for using calligraphy instruction to develop pride and skill in written expression with special students. Guidelines for the teacher cover materials needed, instructional procedures, and remedial advantages for students with handwriting problems. (SBH)

A teacher details a method, the Creative Concrete Operational Writing (Creative C.O.W.) program to provide an individualized structured approach to creative writing in the primary grades. Sample story plans and worksheets are included. (DB)

A highly structured six-step strategy to teach paragraph organization skills to learning disabled secondary students revealed that the students, who were beginning rather than remedial writers, could profit from a formula writing approach that focused on one writing component at a time with maximum practice. (CL)

An example is provided of remediation activities for learning disabled adolescents having a specific computation difficulty with place value and the subtraction with regrouping algorhythm. A seven-day remediation procedure, which may be used with the other basic operations, fades from the concrete to the symbolic mode. (CL)

Teaching social skills to mainstreamed handicapped children can be accomplished by prompting, praising, using graduated guidance, and capitalizing on incidental teaching. (CL)

The article describes the oral interview, a mathematics assessment technique in which the learning disabled adolescent's thinking stragegies are examined. Both efficient and inefficient thinking strategies related to multiplication are discussed, and implications for instruction considered. (Author/CL)

The article pinpoints some successful ways a teacher can direct and support a difficult student by developing a specific point system for social and academic accomplishments. Among suggestions are the use of individual work baskets and task sheets. (Author/PHR)

Three types of informal assessment procedures (interest analysis, interviewing, and observation) are described as approaches to identifying areas of need in individualized programing for the gifted. (CL)

Teachers of behaviorally disordered students can supplement their basic intervention program by teaching self-monitoring, setting goals for and with students, stating the consequences, suggesting alternative behaviors, and rehearsing alternative behaviors. (CL)

Guidelines and suggestions for teachers for giving feedback to increase a child's self-concept are presented. Feedback should be positive, immediate, and frequent. Activities with immediate feedback features include the use of invisible pens for teacher-prepared questions in which the student, using a pen which makes the answer visible, knows…

Guidelines are offered for choosing assessment materials and testing Indochinese students in listening comprehension, reading, arithmetic, and educational experience. (CL)