Industry and authors of 21st Century Skill Frameworks are calling for student proficiency in creativity, problem-solving, innovation, collaboration, and communication skills. This project involved 13 fifth grade gifted students in inventing products for a specified audience with a set of given materials, time limit, and topic constraints. The…

Rejecting packaged crafts and kits, author urges teachers of crafts to provide for each child only the means to discover and interact with the materials he finds interesting and useful in his project. (Author/MB)

Discusses a unit designed to develop students' insights into the poetic experience by comparing poetry and photography; includes several student written poems. (DD)

Creating and organizing their own games helps children to understand and appreciate the importance of cooperation, team play, and adherence to game rules. (JD)

Teacher adopts standards of measurement as an incentive toward understanding non-standard concepts and as a way of teaching children to work together. (RK)

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

This journal issue contains six articles related to language-centered reading instruction, integrated language arts, and reading comprehension. The first article discusses the language experience approach (LEA) to developing comprehension skills in adult beginning readers. The second article describes examples of uses of LEA in such content areas…