This study attempted to determine the effectiveness of cognitive skills training on the verbal fluency of children in a bilingual environment. After a 14-week period, cognitive skills training had no significant impact on the verbal fluency of 103 fifth graders in south Texas. (MT)

There are many reasons to consider the integration of science and language arts. The most compelling of these reasons is that there is evidence showing cognitive parallels between the two subjects. However, whether there is equal developmental progress in both areas is still unclear. The process skills that science and language arts have in common…

This textbook is a fifth-year reader. The lessons in this volume have been prepared and arranged with a view towards several ends: to interest the young reader; to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expression; to point the way to an acquaintance with good books; to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty,…

This textbook is a fifth reader designed to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well. All the lessons in this volume are easily within the comprehension of pupils in the fifth-year grades of the public schools. The reader covers things like historical and biographical stories, selections relating to nature, letters by famous…

This textbook is a fourth and fifth-year reader. The lessons have been prepared and arranged with a view towards several ends: to interest the young reader; to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expression; to point the way to an acquaintance with good books; to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty, and…

Examined questioning strategies of children to determine whether or not the ability to question could be enhanced with special training. (DP)

Transcript of a videotape of a class discussion. (RT)

Indicates that approval and disapproval affect the subject's motivational level (assessed by rate of responding) rather than his learning (assessed by acquisition measures). This study is based on a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Denver. (MH)

Describes the preparation and successful introduction into an elementary school of a computer literacy program for pupils and parents. Preparation involved setting up a steering committee, purchase of 18 microcomputers and one disk drive unit, providing inservice training for class teachers, and production of a fifth-grade teaching manual. (EAO)

Describes examples of how several students achieved their own learning connections across an integrated curriculum. Describes the use of a card-sort activity to help students construct their own connections. Suggests that student-constructed connections offer better learning opportunities for some students than teacher-constructed connections.…

A Durham, New Hampshire, research team successfully pilot-tested an alternative to holistically scored, timed writing samples that corrects some evaluation shortcomings without added cost. The team used portfolios to measure production, perception, and reflection across a population of 27 randomly selected fifth graders. This method proved…

A teacher describes how, through the imaginative use of everyday objects, his fifth grade class learned the integrated functions of the body by constructing a model human. (JD)

Examines the effect of self-instruction on error detection in short essays. Finds that above average readers in the self-instruction group performed significantly better than those in a control group, and that average readers displayed a similar but not statistically significant trend. (RS)

Details how a fifth-grade teacher implemented Roger Farr's "Think-Along" strategy for developing metacognitive reading strategies for use with the novel "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr. (SR)

Describes a project for fifth-grade students that integrates a computer-based project into the regular curriculum--in this case, using a hypermedia program called "Hyperstudio" with an integrated student research project on constellations. (SR)