Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.

Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.

Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience