Offers an instructional unit about city-states in Ancient Greece and provides an instructional design model that may be used in similar efforts. Appropriate for grades 6-12, this unit acquaints students with Greek city-states, their locations, main characteristics, social and political structures, origins, and evolution. (GEA)

The wealth of language and lore about frogs can be used to enrich learning in language arts, science, social studies, and the arts, as well as to investigate values and develop thinking skills. Activities are suggested and a list of appropriate books is provided. (MT)

The author defines the term interactive videodisc and discusses the equipment this technology requires. She discusses interactive videodisc's strengths and weaknesses in educational applications and briefly comments on its application to the field of business education. (CH)

Claims that teachers of elementary students in the U.S. and the U.K. are often concerned with teaching the "basic skills" of reading at the expense of developing information skills: locating information, learning from it and using it. Suggests approaches for teaching these skills.(NH)

Discusses two sets of activities, one for elementary and one for secondary, to be used during Women's History Month. Provides a textbook checklist, to be used by high school students, to evaluate the coverage of women's history in-class readings. Includes addresses from which to order additional materials. (GEA)

Presents a lesson plan which uses role playing to teach secondary students about sectionalism and its effects on a nation. Set during the Constitutional Convention, students, as participants, learn about the three main areas of conflict, the viewpoints of each section of the country, and the importance of compromise as they argue and defend their…

Presents a six-day lesson in which two different classes role play the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to simulate the bicameral nature of the U.S. government. Students use actual federal or state legislation or write their own bills, and then work through the process of passing them into law or rejecting them. (GEA)

Presents a three-day lesson, which requires students to evaluate selected Supreme Court cases and determine how they think the cases were decided and which amendments were applicable. Includes eighteen cases for student deliberation, followed by the actual Supreme Court decisions. (GEA)

Suggests that writing helps reading comprehension only if the writer is aware of the relationship between reading and writing and if the writing is purposeful. Presents three purposeful writing activities. (ARH)

Suggests that retelling a story or expository text can help less proficient readers improve their reading comprehension. Provides guidelines for the use of retelling in the classroom. (ARH)

Use of a tape recorder as an assisted reading technique with four fourth graders resulted in decreased frequency of errors in oral reading for each student during the first session, as well as over the duration of the 43-day assisted reading phase. (JW)

To establish meaningful links between preservice and inservice teachers' background experiences and abstract concepts, relevant research studies are simulated in teacher training sessions. A simulated research activity is described, using the example of helping teachers understand models of memory to better teach mnemonic strategies to handicapped…

The "PEZ" candy dispenser has been used effectively to deliver reinforcers to moderately handicapped preschool students who display desirable behaviors. Contingency management procedures are described for using the candy dispenser to deliver reinforcers and subsequently to fade out the edible reinforcer and have the colorful dispenser itself…

RIDGES is a mnemonic device designed to give upper elementary and high school students a structure to follow when solving word problems. RIDGES stands for Read the problem; I know statement; Draw a picture; Goal statement; Equation development; and Solve the equation. (VW)

Describes the inventory technique, a reading tool which helps second language students to use their background knowledge and experience in overcoming the gap between native and foreign cultural perspectives. The cultural inventory worksheet helps students collect and organize cultural information in written foreign language material. (Author/CB)