The guide provides fundamental principles of lipreading instruction and 38 sequential formal lessons in lipreading for use at the junior high or older level. It stresses that lipreading training aims to develop the understanding of words, phrases, and sentences rather than the study of exact lip movements. The lipreading ability of the child is…

This curriculum guide contains outlines for short courses in poetry, prose narrative, the personal essay, and the short story. Each outline lists objectives, the content emphasized, class activities, means of evaluating student performance, and the length of time for the short course. The last section of the guide presents the requirements for…

Educational games can make the English classroom a giant playground for natural language opportunities. Some of the games include (1) the use of the animate-inanimate switch for a unit on the language of advertising, where the students use two decks of word cards (one for nouns and the other for adjectives), the purpose being to match the…

The purpose of this study is the development of specific suggestions and methodologies for the efficient as well as successful development of creative dramatics activities in the elementary school curriculum. The design for this study was drawn from curriculum objectives and goals identified in "Teaching Agreements for Primary and Intermediate…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers ideas on using the daily newspaper to teach mathematics to slow learners. Classroom activities include teaching students how to shop for bargains through newspaper advertisements, how to compute batting averages in baseball, how to write a check after adding up the…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers ideas on using the newspaper advertisements to teach social studies. Suggestions for using newspaper advertisements include studying tour and travel items and locating places on the map, using restaurant advertisements to increase cultural awareness and examine…

The rapid growth in the field of interpersonal communication is reflected in both the introduction of courses dealing with the personalized involvement of people with each other and the prolific output of related educational resources. Specific representative samples of current resource selections include four texts dealing solely with…

The collection of five booklets presents the Officer Vic program--a program designed to develop an understanding of and appreciation for the law enforcement officer's roles in protecting and aiding the student, his family, and the community. The materials include a teacher's resource book and activity books for grades K-3. The teacher's resource…

Intended for teachers of the mentally gifted in grades 1 through 3, the guide distinguishes between the verbally gifted and the mathematically gifted and discusses subject matter content, development of intellectual skills and creativity, and gives teaching suggestions. Discussed are a different emphasis for the mathematically talented, the…

The manual is intended to provide teachers of young blind children with activities to develop sound localization skills. Both group and individual activities are suggested for the following four categories: activities in which both child and sound are stationary, activities in which the child is stationary but the sound is moving, activities in…

Designed to be used in an inservice training program for teachers of trainable mentally retarded children, the manual begins with a discussion of the home as a resource and of ways in which parents, as part of a Teacher-Parent Team, can contribute to the learning of their children. In the major section of the manual, the statement of curriculum…

"Group groping," a classroom activity in which discussion units of five to seven students search into a text (play, essay, poem or short story) to illuminate a problem posed by the teacher, is a way of making discussions both teacher-directed and student-centered. After a class has read a work, the teacher provides background information to…

The University of North Dakota and the Grand Forks public school system developed a program to place students who were just beginning their teacher education program in elementary school classrooms. Elementary school teachers and administrators were asked to use their own judgment in deciding what duties would be most pertinent for the students…

The booklet suggests activities that a resource teacher for the visually impaired can incorporate into the curriculum to ready students for instruction by an orientation and mobility specialist. Activities such as the following are recommended: introductions to sighted guides, direction taking, protective procedures, and squaring off; body…

The contemporary art of simulation is discussed in this short guide. The intent of the authors is to introduce classroom simulation to a more general audience by reviewing the state of the art. Six games from a variety of subjects in secondary school curriculum are described in detail. Of particular utility to the reader is the annotated directory…