Reviews children's books that can spark students' curiosity about the world, expose them to new places and cultures, and create a desire to explore further. Topics include children around the world, traveling in the United States, international friendships, and incredible journeys. The article offers book-based activities and teaching tips. (SM)

Examined usefulness of independent group contingency system for decreasing inappropriate behaviors. Twenty-five fourth graders in regular classrooms participated in intervention, which involved public posting system using positive reinforcement for desired behaviors. Targeted behaviors showed marked decreases across eight-week treatment period and…

Presents two writing activities for math class that help students explore contexts for multiplication and write multiplication stories. (SR)

Presents the Effective/Ethical Balancing Scale, a conceptual tool with related classroom activities that offers a framework for students to examine their ethical standards and communication practices in three steps: an ethics assessment, writing an ethical events journal, and developing situation-specific ethical outlines. (SR)

Describes an exercise that teaches the reverse of promotion--demand reduction. Discusses persuasive strategies to reduce demand for a product. (SR)

Describes a one-class-period assignment that introduces students to the different professional journals in their major areas of study and in business communication. Notes that students learn how and where to find the journals and what they contain. (SR)

Discusses three techniques for packaging risk and manipulating public attitudes toward risk: subtleties of language, finessing numbers, and risk comparisons. Discusses implications for practice in the profession of public relations. Presents three classroom applications. (SR)

Outlines a year-long project for students to create scrapbooks with reflective writings, monthly activities, special writings and projects, achievements, and social activities. Students bind and decorate the scrapbooks then share them with one another before school ends. (SM)

Asserts that picture books are a medium for all ages. Recommends several recent picture books and groups them under headings suggesting potential uses, with extra activities noted. (PRA)

Discusses ways to create a classroom environment that encourages students to test the power of their language through reading and writing experiences. Describes a writing lesson in a writer-centered classroom, what a writing classroom looks like, and what teachers should do first in terms of the physical setup of the classroom. (SR)

Suggests that a special quality of reinforced learning can take place by use of the preshow workshop, which plants the seeds of thought and actions. Illustrates the method by discussing two practical but utterly different models for preshow workshops. (RS)

Describes an end-of-year assignment in which students, working in groups of three, prepare a program of literature for oral interpretation. (SR)

Describes several mental theater exercises that act as a powerful antidote to the confused helplessness that remedial readers often endure. Suggests that these exercises help students to learn new ways to achieve control over their own mental processes during reading. (SR)

Notes that literature-based reading approaches are becoming increasingly popular in Canada as well as in other parts of North America. Reviews the rationale behind shared book experiences and literary clubs. Provides a variety of language-rich tasks to guide children as they respond to the stories they are reading. (RS)

Provides discussion and critical analysis of the film "School Daze," directed by Spike Lee. Describes how the film was used to attempt to raise student awareness of linguistic variation. Presents details of classroom exercises designed to achieve this objective. (HB)