This booklet contains ideas on how to save children's writings and suggests various methods of collecting and displaying them. The first section discusses children as writers and argues that most writing can be the result of personal and classroom or school related experiences when children are free to express their own ideas in relation to their…

A program designed for those students with varied skills, talents, and abilities who feel the present courses of study are not meeting their needs, the Communication Arts Curriculum is based on an approach to learning in which each student selects his or her own learning activity, assembles the resources, and participates in personal evaluation.…

The teaching guide for distributive education, grade levels 11 and 12, was developed by distributive education majors at Delaware State College. It contains five lesson plans for each of the instructional areas of: (1) the functions of marketing and distribution, (2) fundamental skills, (3) product or service technology, (4) social skills and…

This manual of telephone behavior tips for business and sales professionals offers ways to handle the disgruntled caller and makes suggestions on topics relevant to the telephone. The manual is divided into the following sections and subsections: (1) Common Courtesy (staff tips, answering the telephone, screening calls, transferring calls, taking…

This book gives a general explanation of, and information about, the laws and how they work, and is written very simply and clearly with numerous examples and illustrations. It was written by students and staff in the eighth-grade social studies class of Miles City Junior High School, Montana, with the assistance and advice of members of the…

A project of the Montana Arts Council Poetry-in-the-Schools program, this book contains a selection of poems by elementary and secondary level students and discussions of the program by participating poets. The poems and discussions are divided into the following sections: "Open Window"; "In Light of Five Hours," by Ann…

An activity is described in which students write programs for each other using the Logo programing language. A program developed by two fifth graders is discussed. (MNS)

The purpose of this guidebook is to present instructions for constructing low-cost instruments for environmental studies. The instruments discussed were either adopted or designed by students who were presented with the problem of producing low-cost environmental monitoring equipment. This book is a sequel to A Curriculum Activities Guide to Water…

This booklet contains games ideas, methods, and materials used, adapted, developed, and found successful by teachers of handicapped children. (JD)

This book offers information and step-by-step instructions on establishing a publishing center in schools, churches, or community groups and includes reproducible forms. The book gives ideas for such a center, a joint effort between volunteers, students, and teachers, that lets children publish their stories in a professional looking manner. The…

Language experience in adult basic education serves a variety of purposes: emphasizing communication, providing an atmosphere of sharing and personal growth, and most importantly, allowing students to confront their own learning blocks rather than ignoring them. Case histories support the fulfillment of those purposes. There are basic methods to…

The reader-written book program at Rockford (Illinois) Public Library has been an extremely successful outreach program used to interest the disadvantaged child in library materials and services. Reader-written books are written by using the language experience approach techniques of having the child tell a story orally, recording that story on a…

Behavioral objectives of the Zip Pak are to have the migrant child indicate 10 percent happier faces on the posttest; to have an equal number of blame-self, blame-others on the posttest; and to have 25 percent more praise-self on the posttest. The workbook for girls consists of an interest survey to help in creating stories related to the child's…

Aim of the Zip Pak is to improve the migrant child's interest in reading. Behavioral objectives are to have the migrant child indicate 10 percent happier faces on the posttest; to have an equal number of blame-self, blame-others on the posttest; and to have 25 percent more praise-self on the posttest. The workbook for boys includes a story about…

Aim of the Zip Pak for the third reader level is to improve the migrant child's interest in reading. This Zip Pak consists of special stories for boys using boys' ideas, and stories for girls using their own experiences. Behavioral objectives of the lessons are to have the child indicate 10 percent happier faces on the posttest; to have an equal…