This booklet contains six easy plays written for educationally handicapped children. The plays are brief, use few characters and simple language and plots, and are based on fairy tales. Titles are: (1) "The Three Bears'" (2) "The Gingerbread Boy'" (3) "Little Red Riding Hood'" (4) "The Three Billy Goats Gruff'" (5) "Hansel and Gretel'" and (6)…

This guide contains a short introduction on the value of teaching poetry in elementary school and some ideas on how it should be taught. The guide presents seven classroom activities to make poetry come alive. Seven figures illustrating the activities are included. (MS)

Suggests that more classroom activities should be developed around the concepts and themes revealed in novels and other childrens literature. (RB)

Twenty-seven classroom activities to help elementary and secondary students learn about human rights are described. The three major objectives of human rights education and teaching are: (1) to foster the attitudes of tolerance, respect, and solidarity inherent in human rights; (2) to provide knowledge about human rights, in both their national…

This report describes a project to test the effectiveness of a small-group curriculum designed to teach cooperative group work. The sample of 53 groups of boys and 47 groups of girls was assigned to one of three conditions: (a) established groups, (b) ad hoc groups, and (c) control condition groups. Groups who had training were predicted to choose…

This paper describes a classroom activity in which children make their own books, an activity which may increase children's language abilities and confidence. Four possibilities for classroom-produced books are mentioned: (1) the dictated story, with the teacher taking down the child's exact words, (2) the picture-story book with the child making…

Practical suggestions on how to organize and run a field trip are provided. (DE)

Describes three projects which capitalize on the multiple talents of special education students: Class-made quilts, restoring books, and career education at a pizza parlor. (JMB)

Contains a quiz on words and their meanings which introduces students to a lecture on semantic theory. (RL)

Tells how a telephone conference hookup enabled students in a New Jersey high school journalism class to interview the United States ambassador to West Germany in Bonn. (GW)

Presents fifteen classroom activities in listening and auding and describes the need for more research in these subjects. (DD)

Suggests newspaper headlines which would be appropriate to describe events taking place in nursery rhymes. (DD)

Examines the concept of reading readiness and suggests classroom strategies for teaching it. (DD)