This planning grid for teaching visual arts in grade 5 in Delaware schools outlines the following six standards for students to complete: (1) students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create woks of art and communicate meaning; (2) students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating…

This study focused on the use of journal writing and worksheets in the area of social studies within a suburban elementary school. The study was designed to determine if there was a difference in children's social studies test scores when they completed journal activities or when they completed worksheets. Subjects were 36 Tennessee fifth-grade…

The purpose of the project was to develop an intensive reading remediation program to increase the reading levels of a targeted group of 20 fourth and fifth grade students by two or more grade levels. An afterschool training program was also developed to improve a targeted group of teachers' skills in teaching reading and to increase their basic…

A qualitative study examined the use of retelling as a culturally responsive strategy for Micronesian students. More specifically, it examined the effect of the retelling strategy on the literacy development of an 11-year-old Micronesian student from Chuuk over the course of 9 months in a fifth-grade Guam classroom. Results showed increases in the…

This report details an exploratory study that employs qualitative methods to characterize the academic language used by teachers and students in 4th and 5th grade mainstream science classrooms. Teacher oral language, and to some degree student talk, was observed during content instruction. This type of data allows for a broad descriptive…

An activity requiring students to image the world's population reduced to the size of a small town stimulates understanding of true minority groups, of diverse interests. (JB)

Present study attempted to alter the word association behavior of young children by the use of a training technique closely resembling controlled association. (Authors)

Study conducted to assess the differential effectiveness of two or more creativity instructional programs which purport to develop similar skills and abilities among pupils of the same age. (Authors/CB)

The possible interaction between age-relevant facilitative instructions and the occurrence of phonetic and semantic generalization was investigated. (Author)

It was concluded that developmental differences in focusing are related to developmental differences in reflection-impulsivity. (Author)

The problem in the present study was to produce a description of the logico-semantic relations which define the semantic spaces of children and to indicate how these spaces change over time. (Authors)

Two teachers describe ideas they have used in teaching the concept of area. The use of physical materials is emphasized. (MM)