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Flynn, Erin Elizabeth – Reading Teacher, 2016
This article highlights research exploring the benefits of small-group storytelling as a way to promote rich language in early childhood classrooms. Using the storytelling of children from a preschool classroom serving lower SES children, the author explores the collaborative affordances of story circles. Results show that small-group storytelling…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Story Telling
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Ferguson, Anne M.; Fairburn, Jo – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reports findings of a study demonstrating that language experience techniques can help students comprehend math story problems and successfully apply the mathematical concepts necessary for their solution. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Mathematics Instruction
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Bridge, Connie A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1983
Reports on a study with slow first-grade readers showing that sight words are better learned in the context of repetitive "predictable" books and language experience approach charts than from stilted preprimers. Argues that the process meshes with the basal program. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Context Clues
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Moxley, Roy A.; Barry, Pamela A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that microcomputer programs in LOGO can support children's development of invented spelling within a language experience approach. Presents protocols of three nursery school children using such programs that show promising growth in their writing and reading skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Early Childhood Education, Educational Theories, Language Experience Approach
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Moustafa, Margaret – Reading Teacher, 1987
Assesses the results of using Comprehensible Input PLUS Language Experience Approach (CI plus LEA) to teach reading and language arts to non-native speakers in grades 4-6 in the early stages of language acquisition. Concludes that students demonstrated a high retention level as well as an ability to transfer what they had learned by reading…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Instructional Systems
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Trachtenburg, Phyllis; Ferruggia, Ann – Reading Teacher, 1989
Discusses how interactive, whole class techniques (using a student-generated Big Book adaptation of "Corduroy") improved the reading skills of high risk first grade readers. Describes several activities, including sight word strategies, decoding techniques, and word processing, and suggests 27 Big Books for use with these activities. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Collaborative Writing, Computer Uses in Education