Reading, vocabulary enlargement, and the cause and effect essay are stressed as activities students can pursue on their own to improve their writing. (HTH)

Stresses the importance of revision in the creative writing process and presents a worksheet to be used in groups of four students to evaluate and improve rough drafts of written assignments. (DR)

Activities to develop counting skills are given. (MK)

An after-hours educational program has been developed in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina to provide regular feedback regarding after-hours practice; to identify problems and symptoms that present after office hours; and to provide a mechanism for the discussion of calls and the teaching of telephone medicine…

Suggests that a program outside of regular classrooms, in small groups, may be an effective approach to enhancing self-concepts of pupils with low self-images. The program evaluated here stresses areas of personal and social awareness important to adolescents and deals with them in a responsive manner. (Author/NRB)

Relative to children in the attention-placebo and waiting-list control, skills-training children demonstrated increased skill in a role-play situation, a greater verbal knowledge of how to interact with peers, and more initiation of peer interactions in school. (Author)

The article explains the value to young children of skill development in the areas of observation, classification, communication, and measurement. It suggests specific science-related activities to help develop each skill. (SB)

Life skills education has not been a meaningful part of most individuals' education experience. This has caused many social problems because the individual does not know how to cope with life. Presented a framework to illustrate how and why life skills can and should be incorporated into curricula. (Author)

Reviews the advantages of teaching reading through a mastery reading program and examines the role of the mastery teacher. (JM)

Describes a game construction model which can be applied to an instructional game or a simulation game for elementary and junior high social studies classes. The game deals with motivations and hardships of the Pilgrims as they traveled to the New World. Journal availability: see SO 507 149. (Author/DB)

As dictation skills are becoming more important in controlling business correspondence costs, the article presents approaches to teaching dictation practice after students have learned letter organization in business communication classes. Approaches include cooperative projects with office procedures and shorthand classes, using dictation…

Discusses the advantages of teaching history sequentially, considering factual, methodological, and conceptual relationships. (CK)

Reports results of a study of the story reading skills employed by television actors, student teachers, and practicing teachers. The results are arranged in the following categories: selection of material, preliminary work, performance, and evaluatory activities. (GT)

It is suggested that reading is not a unitary process, but the acquisition of a succession of skills. Different retarded readers may break down at different stages in the acquisition of these. Each disability type may be associated with a particular type of deficiency in conceptual thinking. (Author/SJL)

Supervision and evaluation, contained within a due process framework, are beneficial to both the teacher and the educational administrator. (LH)