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Bailey, Dora L.; Ginnetti, Philip – 1991
Class collaboration and small group composition illustrate the embedding of cooperative learning theory in whole language classroom events. Through this experience all students participate in active learning. The teacher has a weighty role in decision making, setting of the lesson, assigning roles, and monitoring segments of cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
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Daniels, Harvey; Zemelman, Steve; Bizar, Marilyn – Educational Leadership, 1999
"Decodable text" devotees say phonics is scientifically superior to the whole-language approach, which supposedly lacks research validation. However, 60 years of research supports holistic, literature-based approaches to literacy. Whole-language instruction is further validated by research on independent reading, cooperative learning, Reading…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cooperative Learning, Decoding (Reading), Educational History
Rosaen, Cheryl L. – 1993
Determining the appropriate amount and type of teacher and student input is a complex curriculum and instructional challenge for writing teachers. This paper describes a teacher-researcher's experiences while teaching a fifth-grade class and studying a developing writer's workshop approach to writing instruction. She investigated: (1) how students…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Grade 5
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Johns, Kenneth M.; Espinoza, Connie – 1992
This guide, designed for regular classroom teachers in whose mainstream classes language-minority children are enrolled, offers background information and suggestions for helping these students become proficient in English reading and writing and for involving them as resources for global and cultural awareness in majority-language classmates. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communication Problems, Cooperative Learning