Explores ways that science fiction can be used in the classroom in discussions of world affairs, social studies, and science. (HOD)

Describes 24 activities for encouraging response to literature, designed for individual work and for classroom work with pairs, small groups, or the whole class. (GT)

Analyzes Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War" and offers seven suggestions for classroom activities involving study of the book. (GT)

Discusses Jan Mark's "Thunder and Lightnings" and offers the teacher various approaches to teaching the book in the classroom. (HOD)

The development and selection of meaningful activities associated with literature must take into account the nature of the work, the maturity of the children and the manner in which the story is presented. Activities for literary appreciation must send the child back into the work for reconsideration. (HOD)

Suggests that more classroom activities should be developed around the concepts and themes revealed in novels and other childrens literature. (RB)

Describes how one school developed six literature-based explorations involving an author of children's books that was intended to develop children's imaginations. (HOD)

Suggests activities that are intended to help children understand and become more familiar with the legends and myths that are read to them. Argues that the study of classical myths and legends should be part of the English curriculum. (HOD)

Describes imaginative ways to teach "A Wizard of Earthsea," a fantasy novel by Ursula LeGuin, with teaching time limited to one hour a week for six weeks. (HOD)

Discusses various ways, with illustrative detail, of teaching poetry in the classroom. (HOD)

Offers ideas as starting points intended to help make poems more accessible to children. Suggests ideas for first encounters, sharing and presenting poems, becoming familiar with a poem, exploring a poem to increase comprehension, asking questions, collecting poems, and demystifying poetry. (HOD)

Four professors of children's literature offer suggestions based on extensive experience for teaching critical attitudes and insights in the elementary school grades. (HOD)

Wick describes how Theodore Taylor's "The Cay" can be used in the classroom, and Hall tells of the successful classroom use of Stan Barstow's "A Kind of Loving." (HOD)

Provides examples of children's use of oral games and suggests that they are excellent material to establish the needed links between experience, speech, and the written word. (HOD)

Describes the use of 10 word picture books to enrich the language experience of young children and to motivate their reading. (HOD)