A primary/intermediate starter unit which explores circus life and history is presented. Activities range from constructing a circus time line beginning in ancient Rome to research on the treatment of animals by circuses. (MT)

This article contains ideas for turning a language arts center into an imaginary underwater playground. Activities involving poems, riddles, and word play are suggested, as are questions to investigate and art projects. (MT)

A family folklore unit gives pupils a rich language arts experience and helps them become sensitive to and accepting of differences in family situations. Suggestions for such a unit are made, and resources are listed. (MT)

A language arts unit on the shape "round" is described. Useful materials, references, and activities are suggested. (MT)

The article describes a structured approach to teaching sign language to severely disabled students through task analysis. The approach emphasizes four basic principles from developmental and behavioral theories: (1) environmental influence, (2) imitation, (3) reinforcement, (4) practice. A functional sign vocabulary of 250 words grouped according…

Calls for the educator/researcher to listen to and to assimilate children's stories of their school experiences and to reconstruct the meaning of schooling through their eyes, resisting cultural hegemony, and quantification. (HTH)

Explores internal and external measures of excellence, noting that while excellence is easy enough to recognize, a true and reliable measure of excellence is difficult to come by. (HTH)

You will search and search and you will never find a way to teach creative writing. Artists are superior beings. (Author)

Explores the theory and practice of imitation in the rhetorician's sense of emulating models." (Author)