The Effective Instructional Strategies Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students' reading…

Recommends using a calculator instead of a proportion wheel for deciding how to scale photographs. (TJ)

Presents five basic newspaper design rules and illustrative diagrams. (GT)

Discusses techniques for making student magazines more appealing. Examines design and format techniques. (HTH)

Tells how photographs, copy, and graphics may be used to create yearbook spreads that are simple yet elegant. (GT)

Discusses such aspects of a newspaper nameplate as its purpose, appropriate typefaces and size guidelines for it, and its position on the page. (GT)

Notes that the planning of an effective entertainment page in a school newspaper must begin by establishing its purpose. Examines all the elements that contribute to the makeup of a good entertainment page. (RL)

Suggests that headline writers explore graphic possibilities of feature stories. (AEA)

Discusses nine essential elements in a yearbook: cover, endsheets, title page, table of contents, folios, division pages, index, colophon, and closing. (GT)

Reviews good paste-up techniques for student newspapers; includes descriptions of necessary tools, how to do layouts, and how to finish by handling the wax on the paste-up sheets properly. (TJ)

Presents 26 guidelines to help a yearbook staff become more knowledgeable of the basics needed to produce an eye-appealing layout. (GT)

Describes how to teach the stages involved in creating good advertising layouts. (JL)

Discusses guidelines for cropping photographs and includes illustrative photographs. (GT)

A brief introduction outlines a general print product planning, production, and distribution process which is followed by explanations of 26 print process concepts with references to the ideas of experts in the field. The alphabetically-arranged concepts include audience, brochures, content, disclaimers, editing, format, grammar, halftones, inks,…

Argues that college publications, including class schedules, must be accurate, timely, and easy to read and follow. Describes Schoolcraft College's unified format approach to publications marketing. Offers suggestions on the design, format, and distribution of class schedules. (DMM)