Describes a partnership between schools in College Station, Texas and in Mexico City that conducted school activities via videoconferencing. The activities were designed to help the students understand cultural differences by studying murals and then creating their own. (LRW)

Discusses what oral reading fluency is and why it is important. Describes rate, recognition, and phrasing, three important aspects of fluent oral reading. Examines some methods for developing fluency including modeling, repeated reading, paired oral reading, the Oral Recitation Lesson, and choral reading. (SR)

Offers recommendations from six different English teachers of novels, short stories, or poems that they recommend or have used successfully in the classroom to discuss issues and dilemmas of peace. (SR)

Discusses the animal fables of Leo Lionni and recalls a kindergarten class's involvement with his books and their characters. Considers his themes of fairness, friendship, individual decisions versus group decisions, and conformity. (LRW)

Tips for getting the most out of field trips include choosing relevant sites, previsiting the location, keeping trip logs, taking pictures, and sending thank you notes. Suggestions for rallying parent support include seeking parent input, choosing free places, and sending home notes about the trip. A listing of potential field trip sites is…

Provides guidelines for performing and evaluating a simulation developed to teach business students how to conduct effective meetings and how to write memos in the realistic context. Includes handouts that guide students in performing the simulation. (SR)

Describes an end-of-semester assignment used in business communication courses in which groups of students give final presentations comparing communication strategies of three companies in an industry. Notes that the techniques of creating and giving multimedia presentations are learned by students from each other. (SR)

Presents a case study for use in business communication classes to help students understand and learn both the context and the strategies for communication with business and management. Deals with a situation in which an executive wants to close down the company's fitness center but is open to arguments by one of its avid users. Includes two…

Discusses a five-day Holocaust lesson based around Robert O. Fisch's memoir "Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust." Describes class activities as students responded to Fisch's artwork, to his narrative text, living history, living prejudice, and genocide. Concludes that the memoir is an invaluable testimony and…

Describes ways short story collections can be integrated into the English curriculum, including a short story fair, a short story hunt, using single short stories to extend a unit, using a short story by itself, using a collection as a whole, and using short stories as part of a focus on writing. Offers a list of short story resources. (SR)

Presents an exercise used with college students in English literature courses to help them sort out the differing characteristics of Romanticism and Neo-Classicism. (SR)

Describes an eight-stage activity sequence that draws upon students' writing experiences, requires them to examine dramatic texts in "writerly" ways, and gives them the chance to be playwrights in a limited fashion. Shows how this teaches students basic critical elements of drama as they write conversations for randomly paired characters…

Describes a vocabulary activity the author uses in first-year composition classes which is effective, interesting, and fun for students who write an ongoing serialized short story with required vocabulary words chosen weekly from assigned student readings. (SR)

Describes an assignment used by a college professor in elementary and secondary education courses that offers a framework for small-group discussion of student-selected articles dealing with class topics. Notes that after using this format, other classroom discussions improved as well. (SR)

Presents samples of publicly available materials related to the role of iron in the diet. Summarizes what nutritionists feel about iron in the human diet and suggests some experiments related to iron for the classroom. (AIM)