For each of 4 years varying numbers (from 45 to 750) of 3- to 5-year-old children, mostly Mexican-American, Spanish speaking, participated in a program aimed at language development. Classes met 3 hours daily, five times a week, in small discussion-and-activity groups that included five children and one adult. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test…

A linguistic reading-typewriting program for beginning readers is described. It is based on the idea that combining reading and typing into a single program allows the child the benefit and motivation of learning to read that which he writes and to write that which he reads. It provides the child an opportunity to develop his own experience…

In Racine, Wisconsin, the Title I compensatory program for the disadvantaged (kindergarten through sixth grade) was designed to involve parents in the reading process of their children, both in the home and at school. Parents were sent weekly reports on their children's progress in reading, which always included an invitation to come and observe…

The board game and discussion provided in this pamphlet are designed to encourage awareness of future possibilities in the use of school media, to illustrate to students how transmission of news may change in the next ten years and how news and information exchanges might be possible between schools, and to encourage decision making and active…

This study discusses the patterns of social interaction that develop when black and white children play together during the school day in free play periods. Observations were made of the regular sixth grade classrooms in two public schools. Both schools, one in a university town and one in a rural county, had approximately two thirds white…

This book presents a planned program of physical education for children from kindergarten through the eighth grade. The material is designed to aid the teacher in planning balanced units of instruction to meet the needs of the pupils. Suggested Grade Placement Charts at the beginning of each new type of activity help to determine the activities…

A manual for cataloging nonprint materials reflects the recent agreement among authorities in the fields of library science and educational technology on cataloging rules, including terminology and order of entry. Written to produce citations compatible with established footnote and bibliographic forms, this manual can be used as a companion text…

Given in this manual are materials used in the Bilingual Mini Head Start Program to teach migrant preschool children about their Mexican cultural heritage. Presented in Spanish, the activities include pronunciation exercises, rhymes, tales, songs, dances, games, and manual activities. Materials are given for teaching about: (1) El Dia de la…

The selected activities in this bulletin are divided into three categories: games and strategies for primary grades, those for intermediate grades, and activities for the slow or reluctant learner. Among the activities and games contained in the first part are those which deal with: reading readiness; visual and auditory discrimination; concept…

This pamphlet includes a variety of suggestions and activities to stimulate language and thereby increase students' control over their environment and their lives. Although many of these activities can be used with elementary students, the emphasis in this collection is on language stimulation among secondary school children. The first section…

The two volumes of this sourcebook are designed for elementary teachers to help encourage children's creativity. The volumes offer activities and suggestions for language arts teachers who are interested in a variety of approaches to helping children appreciate poetry; do elaborative thinking; understand generic and specific words; understand…

The slide presentation depicts movement activities through which children can perceive and form concepts, thus building cognitive skills in certain areas. The presentation is based on the fact that children interact with their environments through all their senses and benefit from perceiving through their kinesthetic senses. The areas presented…

Language learners want to communicate with others about the sort of things that interest them. Nearly everybody is interested in playing games. Many language games are kept going by communication and break down if communication itself does so. Four types of game are described to illustrate this point: guessing games, certain number games, games…

Audiovisual materials suitable for the teaching of nutrition are listed. Materials include coloring books, flannelboard stories, games, kits, audiotapes, records, charts, posters, study prints, films, videotapes, filmstrips, slides, and transparencies. Each entry contains bibliographic data, educational level, price and evaluation. Mateiral is…

Ideas for using nonprint materials that have been successful in the public libraries of Illinois are briefly summarized. Identified by originating library, ideas are categorized by type of material used. These include records and cassettes, films, filmstrips and loops, slides, pictures, transparencies, videotapes, toys, displays, and animals.…