Three types of instructional games (learning, practice, and creative) are distinguished and discussed, and their place in the second language classroom is considered. It is emphasized that instructional games should complement, not repeat, classroom instruction. (MSE)

Examines how U.S. junior high school and high school students view success. Includes classroom activities that help set realistic models for success and how people achieve it. Suggests several books that provide examples of success attributions. (LS)

Lists 21 teacher tested ways of encouraging voluntary reading. Suggestions include role playing, teacher modeling, reading aloud, reading books from a series, critical reading, bringing books from home, and tape recording passages from books. (RS)

Describes how a nine-week mini-course in science fiction and fantasy stimulated students to think critically and creatively and to make connections across disciplines. Notes that the mini-course was replaced by a required survey of the British classics, sacrificing critical literacy for cultural literacy. (RS)

Describes a class activity in which students receive copies of requests for charitable contributions, research the charities and issues, write a persuasive appeal for the charities, and debate the merits of the various causes examined by the class. Argues that students learn to analyze persuasive appeals, separate emotional from factual arguments,…

Class activities for French native and second-language immersion classes using the souvenir program of a 1988 Manitoba travel festival are outlined. Activities involve global manipulation of the document and specific uses for information seeking and information manipulation. (MSE)

Suggests the use of a taped dictation program to allow children to fully express ideas without initial concern for the mechanical tasks of spelling and handwriting. Offers steps to carry out a writing program with taped dictation. (MG)

Presents a two-tiered developmental guidance classroom unit on parental divorce which acquaints children with the idea of divorce as a family change. Focuses on the needs of the children coping with parental divorce. Discusses results which appear to have a positive effect on child's depression, attitudes and belief about parental divorce and…

Takes the position that sociology teachers should expand their role to help students write better. Outlines the goals of speculative writing and demonstrates its usefulness in the sociology classroom. Describes classroom experiences using speculative writing and offers suggestions for enhancing its effectiveness. (KO)

Presents two printmaking lessons for children inspired by master art teacher, Frank Wachowiak. "Repeated Motifs and Designs" uses vegetables and found objects to make prints emphasizing repeat patterns. "Fish Under the Sea" uses white liquid glue to make line prints with strong linear compositions. (LS)

Presents results of a six-week research project in a creative writing class that focused on developing audience sensitivity among students. Describes three units combining social, rhetorical, and informational perspectives. Concludes that a sequential approach seems to increase audience sensitivity among students. (KEH)

Describes how online bulletin boards and information services can assist students in obtaining expert information and ideas. Reports that the rapidity of these online responses to queries provides an additional incentive for students. (MM)

Presents an approach to teaching Pierre Boulle's novella, "Face of a Hero," in which students produce their own "Cliffs Notes" for the text. Stresses the importance of using nontraditional literature, and shows how students can discover their own richer responses to literature instead of relying on study aids. (MM)

Discusses the "Exercise in Hard Choices," a simulation published by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), that requires students to make decisions on some of the most significant and controversial budget options facing the U.S. Congress and president. Reports on the simulation's classroom success, stating that it…

Describes a demonstration that illustrates the use of behavioral tests of reaction time to infer unobservable physiological mechanisms. Appropriate for use in large introductory psychology classes, students participate in a behavioral experiment that tests a physiological hypothesis. Discusses variations of the experiment and advantages of its…