
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 9, 1991                   TAG: 9104090270
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

GRADE-SCHOOL PTAS SET INFORMATIONAL MEET

The PTAs of Gilbert Linkous, Margaret Beeks, Harding Avenue and Price's Fork elementary schools will have an informational meeting about creative activities in the classroom tonight at 7 at Gilbert Linkous Elementary School.

The following programs will be discussed:

\ Writing-to-Read: Computer-based program designed to teach kindergartners and first-graders to write and read in a risk-free, multistationed computer center. There will be a hands-on demonstration of how the program works.

\ Special education integration: Schools throughout the country are moving toward placing special education and physically handicapped students in regular classrooms. This session will present issues of this movement and the impact of integration on all students.

\ Counseling: Guidance counselors in the elementary schools will talk about their program and answer questions.

\ Whole language: Teachers will explain how language arts and reading instruction have changed and will give details of what happens in a whole language classroom.

\ Math trends: Topics to be discussed include CSMP, traditional math, use of manipulatives, "Math Their Way," and "Touch Math." Teachers will explain what these terms mean.

Each parent may choose three of the topics. Parents are asked not to bring children; the sessions are designed for parental information.

by CNB