Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

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Books, pomplets, cotologs Looking at fhe Literature Alpark's New Edlcaiional Handbook: A Window to the Child's Mind. Starbridge Publications, New York, N. Y. Write to Alpark Educational Records, Inc., 40 East 88th St., New York 28. N. Y. 260 pages. Description: The book analyzes Helen Parkhurst"s extraordinary techniques of interviewing children (on such topics as .Anger, Boredom, Conscience, Death, How We Like to Learn, The New Baby — .\nd Sex). It outlines practical uses for the recordings of these interviews and gives an account of experimentation with the records by educators before the publication of the guide. Exmluation: Those who know the Parkhurst records and the amazing insight thev give into the child's mind will welcome this handbook with its descriptive analyses and quotations from the records. Those who don't know the records can get an excellent introduction to them from the handbook. (Records are available from Alpark Educational Records — address above.) Educators Guide to Free Films. Sixteenth .Annual Edition. 1956. Educators Progress Service, Randolph, Wisconsin. 560 pages. S6. Description: "The sixteenth annual edition of Educators Guide to Free Films i> a professional, cyclopedic service . . , replaces all volumes and supplements which have preceded it. It is a complete, up-to-date, annotated schedule of free films . . . completely revised. Fhe Guide has come a long way in sixteen years from that first H)H edition which required but 102 pages to document 671 film titles to ihis current 560-page edition of 3453 titles." (Quoted from a promotional brochure and from the publisher's foreword to the book.) Evaluation: If you use free, sponsored 16mm films in school, church, or community club, there's no better or more complete guide than this one. (But remember to preview any film, free or otherwise, before using it for serious educational purposes. And don't use any film just because it's free.) Arithmitoons by Lowry W. Harding. Designs and drawings by >[ichael Dooley. Win. C. Brown Conqjany. Dubucpie, Iowa. 1956. 91 pages. $1.50. Description: A combination of humorous words and cartoon illustra tions shows the problems of arithmetic instruction — and the importance in such instruction of modern teaching materials, properly used. .Aimed at parents, teachers, prospective teachers, and members of the taxpaying public. Evaluation: Fhough not uniformly funny or effective, the book is to be commended and circulated for its at tention-getting preseiualioii of serious teaching problems ami good teaching methods. Creative Farm Shows. National Project in .Agricultural Communications, Wells Hall, Michigan Stale University. East Lansing. .Michigan. 1956. 56 pages. S3. Though aimed at "agricultural television," this book will be useful to all involved in educational television. It gives excellent instructions and illustrations on such basics as how to get The Keystone Reading Readiness Service provides interesting, essential group activities — visual, auditory, kinesthetic. A Manual for the teacher gives full information and detailed procedures for the use of each slide. The illustrations are on 100 well drawn, highly colorful slides, absorbingly interesting to small children, and shown in a daylighted room. They meet all requirements of the usual seven Reading Readiness activities: Visual discrimination, 16 slides. Kinesthetic and Left-toRight, 3 slides. Concept Building and Classification, 15 slides. Language Development, 16 slides. Vocabulary and Concept Reading, 9 slides. Auditory Perception, 37 slides. Combined Visual and Auditory Discrimination, 4 slides. ^ed, mu 004^ n/ieineMi ^leaduK^ p/uMemA Mo.st reafiing difficulties are born in the first grade and that's where they are most easily solved. It has been lound that a child's introduction to reading can be interesting . . . stimulating . . . and highly effective in building the foundation for Reading Skills a prime necessity of modern education. Nothing handicaps the student more than poor reading. Every student is entitled to a good start. Your Primary Teachers may expect the same excellent results with the Keystone Reading Readiness Service that thousands of other teachers have had. You are invited to test these techniques for the prevention of reading difficulties, in one of vour own classrooms. i i t ■>. k k' k k 1 % \. % Slide from the series on "Visual Discrimination." blide Irom tiie serit;.H . llielic and Le(t-toRit:liI Pr^Kres sion." Keystone View Co., Meadville, Pa. In Please send information on Keystone Rcatling Readiness .Service. n Please phone or write and set time for a demonstration. ' (Name)— I (School) _(City) EcJScreen & AVGuide — October, 1956 361