A teacher of primary grade gifted students describes the class's reactions to a six-week unit on the handicapped. Activities are said to have focused on the meaning of specific conditions, the range of careers in working with the handicapped, and observation of a preschool class for deaf students. (CL)

The author describes a learning center in which primary aged gifted students are encouraged to think creatively. Examples of three creative activities are given. (CL)

Describes a second-grade classroom activity in which children took photographs of their school while focusing on common themes generated by their teacher. Includes discussion of materials and costs for the activity, children's expectations, parental help, class sessions involved (instructions, taking pictures, developing photographs, sharing…

Describes a kindergarten class project in which five-year-old children became community helpers by producing joke books and distributing these joke books to waiting rooms of medical facilities to be used by child patients. (BB)

Illustrates the ways children from a first-grade classroom are encouraged to communicate their mental images of movement, spatial concepts, and imagination through drawings and writing. (BB)

Describes a year long literacy improvement project in two third-grade classrooms that focused on struggling readers. Describes small-group reading instruction in the classrooms that focused on 3 components: rereading familiar texts; shared and guided reading, incorporating strategy use in decoding unfamiliar words; and shared and guided writing.…

A program was devised to provide 12 educable primary grade children with meaningful independent work experiences during the morning period while the teacher was engaged in reading instruction. (DB)

Offers one teacher's reflections on her methods for dealing with students who challenge classroom teaching norms. Anecdotes of four students are provided. (BB)

Describes ways in which the inclusion of literacy materials in kindergarten classroom dramatic play centers encourages young children to incorporate literacy activities into their play. (BB)

A newspaper project for third graders provided an exciting vehicle for putting their language arts, science, math, and social studies curricula to use. Teacher planning included the reading of publications about running a school newspaper and visiting a high school newspaper facility. The children selected their editors by voting, researched…

Designed to be used in conjunction with the original handbook (May, 1980), this addendum reports on a final series of activities (conducted during the first semester of the 1980-81 school year) that involved parents in primary school activities as part of the Hawaii Follow Through Project. A total of 243 parents participated as observers,…

Presented is a curriculum guide for children with multiple sensory impairments, and described is the Georgia Center for the Multi-Handicapped. Provided are developmental scales for evaluating receptive and expressive language, auditory skills, visual perception, and motor skills. Preprimary and primary curricula (covering such areas as self-care…

A project in a second and third grade classroom resulted in a classroom newsletter designed and written by regular and special education students to provide the school and parents with information regarding activities in their classroom and school. Students were provided with an authentic opportunity to express their ideas and feelings about…

Presents two kindergarten teachers' accounts of the use of the whole language approach to children's learning in class. Describes the reading of a children's book to a public kindergarten class and the subsequent literacy-related activities. (BB)