Describes a fifth grade teacher's approach to producing plays with her class. The script for a Christmas play about Santa and the metric system is included. (JMB)

Presents teaching tips and ideas for learning activities to use with kindergarteners. (JMB)

Presents several pages of teaching ideas and activities for elementary school teachers. Many of the activities have a Christmas theme. (JMB)

Presents ideas for teaching techniques and learning activities for use with kindergarteners. Includes areas such as matching letters, supplying props for dramatic play, and measuring. (JMB)

Discusses why children read and ways to nuture reading in students. (SB)

Software programs which help students' vocabulary development are described. (CB)

Eight educational practices for improving classroom learning taken from the Department of Education's report "What Works--Research about Teaching and Learning" are reviewed. Reading comprehension, teaching writing, direct instruction, and homework are among the topics covered. (MT)

Ways of teaching a sense of direction to mentally retarded children are described. (CK)

Innovations in individual instruction. (CK)

A hands-on science activity, which calls for students to perform a physical checkup on a local tree, is described. A reproducible worksheet, "A Tree's Annual Checkup," is included. (IAH)

Not too long ago, on a visit to two sixth-grade classrooms, the author saw very clearly the challenge teachers have before them when they try to differentiate reading. In both classrooms, 11-year-olds who read like fourth graders shared tables with classmates who read like the average ninth grader--a five-year span. How teachers approach this…

Fifth graders became interested in math by learning about jobs, housing, and transportation costs based on information in the local newspaper. In the process they learned something about the economics of living, and about how mathematics would be important to them in the years ahead. (KC)