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Peer reviewedFreppon, Penny A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Presents a case study of a nine-year-old boy's reading and writing difficulties. Notes that instruction grounded in sociopsycholinguistics, whole language, and emergent literacy helped the learner overcome his difficulties. Provides an account of alternative approaches in assessing written language difficulties; and the role of the reader's belief…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Download full textFreppon, Penny A. – 1992
A study investigated how a teacher managed her whole-language instructional approach within the constraints of the district skills-based evaluation program. Data gathering and analysis took place over a 5-month period in a first-grade urban midwestern classroom. Data included field notes, interviews, artifacts, and classroom observations. The…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Research, Elementary School Teachers, Evaluation Methods
