Low-income Black elders completed a 10-week health promotion program for the purpose of lowering or stabilizing blood pressure levels. Comparisons were made between classes that met weekly versus three times a week, and between yoga and aerobics formats. A peer-led program was developed that continued for 10 months after the professionally-led…

Compared the effectiveness of diet with diet-plus-life-style exercise in overweight families (N=53). Results indicated that the addition of exercise to a diet improves the amount of relative weight change at six months and one year in adults. No treatment differences were found for children after one year. (LLL)

Lists eight ways to develop a topic for a composition. (DF)

Tells how to develop ways for students to share writing with others both inside and outside the classroom. Discusses possibilities for publishing within the school and in the community, as well as how to submit entries to writing contests and national publications. Contains tips about submitting manuscripts. (EL)

The article describes the purposes of free-choice writing in a class of hearing impaired kindergarteners. Implications for writing instruction include the need for stressing writing as communication, planning activities based on student interest, and providing opportunities for students to explore and experiment. (CL)

A study of 215 women aged 25 to 65 was conducted to determine the relationship between their participation in regular, vigorous exercise and their exercise locus of control, health values, physical appearance values, physical fitness values, attitudes toward physical activity, and barriers to exercise. Results are discussed. (MT)

Presents ideas on writing instruction for teachers of mathematics, physics, accounting, biology, and social studies. Contains guidelines for designing writing assignments in various content areas. (EL)

This study compared compliance rates in two exercise programs for children aged 8 to 14, one a well-structured program, the other a home running program prescribed by a pediatrician. The greater success of the first program was attributed to enthusiastic leadership, parental support, and feelings of accomplishment in the participants. (MT)

The author describes the value to visually impaired and multiply handicapped students of a good typewriting curriculum. She discusses hand and finger exercises and notes benefits to students from focusing on the hands as well as on the rudiments and total communicative value of typing. (CL)

Reports the results of a study to determine grading criteria and evaluative standards used by a select group of business communication instructors. (AEA)

Presents eight exercises used in teaching freshman composition students to write poetry. (DD)

This paper shows that simple cardiovascular training can reduce the composition of body fat in college women. (RC)

Running performance and metabolic variables were evaluated in 28 college males during the period of a 10-week cross-country activity class. (RC)

Coaching is the central activity in the "game" of teaching, and it is an activity that can have a lifetime effect on language learners. This book presents a "coaching approach" to instruction in written language--an approach that is eclectic, pragmatic, synthetic. The approach in the book centers on finding balance--ways of…

This publication presents general guidelines for exercise prescription that have an anatomical basis but also consider the exerciser's ability to do the exercise correctly. It reviews various common questionable exercises, explaining how some exercises, especially those designed for flexibility and muscle fitness, can cause harm. Safer…