Explores problems that sometimes arise with instruction organized around thematic units and suggests practical ways of resolving them. (SR)

Describes an elementary school book club with 12 elementary teachers, their principal, and 2 university teachers reading the same piece of contemporary multicultural fiction and keeping response journals. Describes how their discussions were studied and how the literature discussions changed their classroom practices. (SR)

Describes 13 recommended resources that alert busy teachers at all grade levels to meaningful trade books (both fiction and nonfiction) for children and ways to use those trade books in the classroom. Classifies them as lists of trade books; trade books and activities; and trade books across the curriculum. (SR)

Discusses definitions of multicultural literature, rationales for including it in the curriculum, and how it should be selected. (SR)

Discusses finding grant money for computer technology for whole language classrooms. Offers advice on writing grants. (SR)

Describes the successful implementation in a Georgia elementary school of the Reading Millionaires Project, a reading incentive program to promote recreational reading and to create student interest in reading. (SR)

Presents a new approach to spelling instruction, "cued spelling," that gives children greater control over their own learning. Describes the procedure designed for two individuals working together, whether parent and child or two children. (SR)

Investigates how teachers would use "Amos and Boris," a picture book of recognized literary merit, with children. Asks 19 teachers what they would want children to take away from the book, what questions they would use to stimulate discussion, and how they would help children revisit the book. (SR)

Describes an Australian program, called Talk to a Literacy Learner, which involves parents more intimately in the literacy development of their children. Focuses on the strategies parents use to interact with their children as they read and write. Discusses program effectiveness. (SR)

Studies the social interactions of two bilingual ethnic minority children during informal work and play settings in a kindergarten program. Finds that their literacy learning is hampered by isolation, the staff's apparent lack of interest in the children's home language and culture, and the staff's unawareness of cultural biases in the testing and…

Describes the reading program at Lafayette Township Elementary School in Sussex County, New Jersey, one of several designated by the International Reading Association as exemplary. (SR)

Describes the reading program at Pope Elementary School on Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, one of several school reading programs recognized by the International Reading Association as exemplary. (SR)

Presents annotations of 50 children's books and picture books which explore different perspectives on how people can work toward achieving harmony in the world. (SR)

Addresses common questions regarding the use of technology in the classroom, highlights some of the technologies currently being used in classrooms, clarifies some associated terms, and provides some suggestions on how to get started. (SR)

Argues that performance-based assessment can be a means of integrating the principle of equity into a reconceptualization of assessment, in which all children are expected to achieve levels of excellence and afforded the opportunities and environment to do so. (SR)