Notes the positive effects of using role playing in journalism classes to prepare reporters and advertising salespersons for their jobs. (RL)

Gives reasons for using writing projects rather than writing assignments. Offers the group project of writing pamphlets as an example of students applying knowledge from outside the classroom in developing writing and communication skills. (RL)

Notes the positive effects of assigning students tasks that require them to find samples of language that exemplify some general theoretical principles. (RL)

Suggested are classroom activities for children ages 10 to 14, that relate sports to the worlds of art, economics, psychology, mathematics, the social sciences, the physical sciences, literature, and history. (Author/SJL)

Describes a rationale and activities for using journals in the preschool setting to bring the school and home environments together and to acquaint children with the writing process. (HTH)

Identifies three "formula plots" found in children's literature, outlines ideas for introducing a formula story, and discusses strategies for examining stories of all three plot types, including retelling them and comparing them with other stories. Includes a bibliography of stories using the three plot formulas discussed. (HTH)

Presented are 61 warm-up activities and games to help children get acquainted, review basic skills, and "get back in gear" after summer vacation. (SJL)

Suggestions for using various dramatic techniques including a student-written cabaret to teach German at all levels of proficiency are described. The method promotes language proficiency, is pedagogically sound, flexible, rewarding, and fun. It can be adapted for use in teaching other languages. (PMJ)

Provides an analysis of the main character of a novel to show how the current literature on adolescence can be taught through analysis of adolescent characters in novels. (SS)

This article explains the components of the reading box and trading program wherein each student creates an activity box based on books. The boxes contain books, comprehension folders, and games and activities for developing language arts, reading and thinking skills. (KC)

Offers a classroom exercise on job interviews that acquaints students with the stages and the actual time-frame of a good interview and gives them classroom practice in being interviewed. (RL)

A framework of ideas is presented that teachers can use in planning, diagnosing, and understanding the social aspects of instructional management. (JD)

This article outlines the basic premises for a values education model and illustrates the model through discussion of littering as a values topic drawn from environmental education. (Author/RE)

Suggests criteria for the selection of poems, considering their value in throwing light upon the target culture, and considering the "changed level of knowledge" of present-day foreign learners. The basic communicative element in the reception of literature is graphically stated. A sample teaching unit sketches pupil-teacher dialogs. (IFS/WGA)

Describes a critical thinking activity for secondary school social studies students using a letter written in the nineteenth century. The letter contains references to unfamiliar people and events. Through research, students are able to trace the exact date of the letter and to identify the people and events. (KC)