Suggests way of introducing books to children and lists resources containing ideas for promoting reading. (RH)

Provides lesson plans for stimulating children's oral storytelling in preparation for writing, expanding children's curiosity about computers, and extending children's language and communication skills through classifying and grouping materials from home and school. (RH)

A fifth-grade school teacher discusses the usefulness of brainstorming as a prewriting activity and illustrates how she used this activity with her students. (MP)

Intended for teachers, principals, and other school workers, this article suggests steps to help end emotional abuse of children and the resultant damage to their self-concepts. (MP)

Concrete suggestions for teaching group art lessons to stimulate creative expression are offered, with focus on conducting motivation sessions and providing help during ongoing activities. (MP)

Describes the value of parody play as part of classroom activities one teacher experienced with her students. (MP)

Offers suggestions teachers may find useful as they assist children in changing harmful sex-role perceptions and in developing unbiased attitudes toward learning in school. (Author/RH)

Indicates how teachers can foster patriotism through experiences that are meaningful to young children, rather than relying on a daily recitation of the pledge of allegiance--an exercise which children frequently do not understand. (Author/RH)

Discusses an approach to moral education that is based on developmental theory and involves creative dramatics and role playing of themes in children's books. Guidelines for preparatory exercises, an outline of the dramatization process, and a list of books classified according to feelings, emotions, and character traits illuminated in the stories…

Describes how a teacher, faced with the task of taking an inventory of classroom materials, used the situation as a meaningful method of teaching mathematics, social studies and language to her third-grade pupils. (Author/MP)

Reports children's feelings about the attempted assassination of President Reagan. Responses included fear for personal safety, loss of control, ambivalence, numbness, anger, cynicism, and despair. Discusses how teachers can respond to children in such a situation. (Author/DB)

Reviews research on the psychological and emotional effects of geographic mobility upon children, the effects upon academic achievement, and the responses of children to moving. Suggestions are given about how to help children cope with moving. (Author/DB)

Advocates the use of classification activities in the elementary school curriculum as a means of developing thinking skills in children. Critical preclassification skills, classification activities (including simple and multiple classification), and classification tasks and materials are discussed. (Author/RH)

Advocates a sensory approach, involving care for plants and animals, to help children understand the nature of life and death. (Author/RH)