Providing for individual differences in ability, interest, and cultural values among students, this guide contains resources, goals, objectives, sample lesson plans, and activities for teaching speech and drama to elementary school students. The first section of the guide offers advice on the organization of a speech arts curriculum, approaches to teaching the gifted and talented, resources for instilling patriotism, effective teaching cues, and ways to improve school climates. The next section of the guide focuses on speech communication and includes subsections on sensory awareness, talks and formal speeches, discussion (panel, lecture-forum, brainstorming, and others), leadership training, oral interpretation, social skills, puppetry, and electronic communication. The final section contains discussions and activities in drama ranging from dramatic play, warm-up exercises, improvisation, pantomime, and clowning to the aspects of play production, such as casting, rehearsals, costumes, makeup, lighting, and blocking. A special teaching unit entitled "Free To Be--You and Me," a glossary of speech and drama terms, a creative calendar designed to help teachers make every day a special day, evaluation charts for assessing student performance, a filmography, and a bibliography are appended. (RL)