Designed for grades 3-5, this student text contains 30 narratives (10 for each grade level) written to help readers develop a positive self image and to promote career goals based upon personal interests and abilities, not on sex or ethnicity. All episodes focus on the travels of six pen pals from New York, Chicago and California who begin their…

This packet is the second of five developed as a set of self-appraisal instruments with which teachers (and others) can systematically examine their instruction methods in communication skills. The packet contains forms for teachers, students, administrators, and parents addressing two levels of specificity: responses to the overall communication…

The curriculum guide is intended to provide creative and academic enrichment for gifted students in regular classrooms of grades 3, 4, 5, and 6. Introductory information includes a discussion of the Three Stage Model, characteristics of the able student, and instructions for using the guide. Individual lesson plans are provided for the following…

This publication contains an evaluation of the Architectural Heritage Education Project, a 3-year project which used local architecture as a resource for teaching the arts and humanities at the secondary level. The project involved 25 Massachusetts high school teachers in art, social studies, industrial arts, and the language arts working with…

These language arts, U.S. history, and humanities lessons for secondary school students are designed to be used with "From Jumpstreet-A Story of Black Music," a series of 13 half-hour television programs. The colorful and rhythmic series explores the black musical heritage from its African roots to its wide influence in modern American music. Each…

This publication contains summary descriptions of the 33 grant proposals in the arts which teachers in Intermediate Unit No. 10 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, submitted to the Challenge Grant Program. The purpose of the Program during 1979-80 was to provide grants to public and nonpublic school staff to encourage and assist them in planning and…

Developed by teachers who had been trained in the teaching of the writing process, this curriculum guide is designed to help teachers gain the skills necessary for effective writing instruction. The seven sections of the guide provide the following information: (1) the basic assumptions and guidelines of the curriculum; (2) an explanation of the…

Developed for grades kindergarten through four, this book contains activities for using the newspaper as an educational resource for content area instruction. The first two sections of the book offer a pretest for determining how much students use newspapers and what they know about newspapers, and introductory information on newspaper components…

An instructional model is described for using television production and television viewing as subject matter to integrate the development of communication competence in the language arts. The theoretical background of the model is explained, as is the application of the model in a pilot demonstration study. A sample usit is offered, with 11…

A secondary school remedial reading instructor developed activities in an effort to turn the reading lab into a learning-how-to-learn-from-the-text lab. The objectives of the two consecutive reading lab courses were to increase writing, listening, and speaking skills, as well as reading skills. The first activity was designed to help students…

This teacher's guide is designed to provide secondary teachers with an assortment of classroom activities dealing with the Mt. St. Helens eruption of May 18, 1980, in the areas of science, social studies, math, language arts and school newspaper activities. Copy masters and teacher versions of all activities are contained within this guide,…

These guidelines and lesson plans are intended to help elementary and secondary teachers to teach about organized labor and its contribution to the development of this country. The lessons, some self-contained and others requiring access to publisher available materials, were developed by teachers. Examples follow. Elementary students read about…

Focusing on a two-year period, this informally written book describes the efforts of several rural elementary teachers to establish a writing center based on a unified language arts curriculum. The book relates the authors' background experiences, outlines the structure of the writing program, offers typical writing experiences and classroom…

Intended to facilitate the implementation of the activities suggested in the corresponding teacher's guide, this revised supplement and ditto packet contains visual aids and originals from which ditto masters may be made for duplicating multiple copies. The teacher's guide gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. The…

Support materials for unit 10 of the bilingual language arts strand developed for grade three include two small pupil books and visuals and ditto masters for use with instructional and assessment activities described in the unit's teacher's guide. The instructional aids for kits 37-40 are designed to help the teacher present reading, language…