Read, Play, and Learn is a play-based curriculum designed to promote growth across all of the areas of development important to a young child. With a school-year's worth of ready-to-use lessons or modules, the curriculum provides story-related activities centered around themes such as enjoying seasonal festivities, sharing emotions, making…

Read, Play, and Learn is a play-based curriculum designed to promote growth across all of the areas of development important to a young child. With a school-year's worth of ready-to-use lessons or modules, the curriculum provides story-related activities centered around themes such as enjoying seasonal festivities, sharing emotions, making…

This program guide/teacher guide from the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) offers suggestions for how to celebrate "Music in Our Schools Month" (MIOSM), the time of year when music education becomes the focus of schools across the nation and also an opportunity for teachers and students to share musical ideas and…

These two teaching guides, one for the novel "Summer Song," (appropriate for grades 5 through 8) and one for the novel "Libby Bloom" (appropriate for grades 3 through 6) are designed to help teachers use these children's books in interdisciplinary classroom settings. The "Summer Song" guide offers thematic links on…

Film study can be a valuable educational endeavor if the pedagogical point of view is not short-sighted; if the medium does not become the message; and, if students are allowed to make a film as well as see many of them. (DS)

A proposed unit of study for high school literature classes, exploring a particular image of man as he appears in the past and is found in contemporary society. (Author/JB)

The article is in French, with no translation provided. (RT)

Provides background information on and development and use of mental imagery exercises in environmental education. The exercises are designed to help people make contact with those symbolic forms which then actualize certain aspects of their personality. (JN)

Suggests J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" to those who teach the adolescent novel because it addresses the problems of growing up and deals with the price of maturity. (AEA)

Examines four approaches to teaching Russian literature in translation and offers suggestions from the most successful programs to help in establishing, developing, or improving similar programs at other educational institutions. (EKN)

Describes one school's plan for mixed-ability teaching that utilizes the knowledge, skills, and experiences of all English department members by providing an integrated and coherent curriculum pattern.

Presents theoretical assumptions and a practical guide to creating a reading program based on thematic units. (FL)

Looks at traditional procedures for reading instruction and analyzes the problems inherent in them. Proposes a thematic approach to instruction as an alternative. (FL)

Describes a composition course that used the rhetoric of the printed media as a stimulus for student writing assignments. (FL)