Ideas for early childhood curriculum readiness aids made from manila folders. (CM)

How a group of second graders used techniques from Sesame Street'' in developing phonics materials. (SP)

Describes how Wantagh Elementary School's reading lab became the School Publishing Company's Write-In Center where students can write stories and have them bound into books. Discusses the motivational benefits of a school publishing program. (SJL)

To enliven her class' study of the American West, the author had students write letters as if they were pioneers heading west. The results were developed into a school play, an excerpt of which forms the bulk of this article. (SJL)

The author discusses the increase in teacher- and student-developed audiovisual materials, and suggests ways to enhance the development and use of these materials. (KC)

Presents suggestions for introducing children to collage. (RK)

Discusses the use of invented spelling to help kindergarten students learn to spell. It provides a natural foundation for building spelling abilities by making students think about words and generate new knowledge. Activities are suggested and guidelines are presented for a developmentally sensitive spelling program. (SM)

Teachers help children to experience art by challenging their fifth graders with the responsibility of an art project. (Author/RK)

Presents ideas for creating high-impact, low-cost, stimulating classroom displays. The article suggests arranging the environment to allow comfortable movement along with a pleasant, organized backdrop to teacher and student displays. Individual displays should not only share student work but extend and develop learning. Eight creative ideas are…

Pantomime, the use of the body to communicate without words, is a natural activity for children, an ancient art which is enjoying new popularity. Presented are tips on teaching mime to children. (Author/KC)

Describes innovative ways elementary teachers turned watching and producing television programs into active, hands-on learning. Students created a videotaped student book review program, watched the weather channel, viewed public television's after school "Homework Helpline," and tuned into educational programs that could be linked to…

Teachers' ideas for quick classroom activities include creating a garden-in-winter bulletin board, writing a science story, playing a Valentine's game, graphing vowels, averaging students' sizes, creating lifesize figures of historical people, making picture books, creating an idiom bulletin board, and sending school valentines to local hospitals.…