This packet contains five standards-based lessons, intended to be used at the high school level in English language arts and/or English-as-a-Second-Language advanced-level classes. Each of the five lessons has a series of vocabulary, active reading, critical thinking, and interpreting activities, and each lesson gives explicit teaching procedures.…

The ability to use algebra in describing and analyzing real-world situations is becoming a basic skill for all students. The main focus of this book is on patterns, functions, and relationships. Information and ideas on how algebraic thinking can be developed in the years leading to a formal algebra course are included. K-8 teachers are offered a…

This book is designed to clarify the finer points of implementing family literacy programs, developing curriculum, and meeting the needs of adults, children, and families, while providing resources for effective family literacy programs. It is an answer book to many of the questions the National Center for Family Literacy is asked most often. Each…

This book offers ideas to help teachers balance their literacy curriculum. It includes a flexible lesson plan format, literacy-based ideas, authors' birthday calendars, a special events calendar, a comprehensive theme-based book list, a teacher's view of assessment, charts and reproducibles, and pocket-pouch folders for storing loose papers and…

A program of motor and kinesthetic games was used to decrease the print phobia of 20 dyslexic boys. (DB)

Article explained the use of TESL, a program with a primary aim of teaching children how to utilize situationally-appropriate English. (Author/RK)

Paper prepared under contract with the Defense Language Institute, English Language Branch, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and presented to the staff and faculty of the Institute in 1972. (RS)

Author discusses science discovery lessons, presents a model of one, and offers suggestions for structuring other specific lessons. (Editor/MB)

Article, written by the Editorial Staff of D.O.K. Publishers, Inc., describes an approach which has been developed through more than three years of experimentation for teaching literature to elementary school children. (MB)

Part 1 of a two-part series on teaching spoken and written French as a communication tool. Part 2 will appear in the April-May issue of "Le Francais dans le Monde". (DS)