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Seda, Ileana – 1989
A study was conducted concerning the reduced and limited curricula which tests may represent. Observations were made at 18 different elementary and middle school classrooms in four school districts in central Pennsylvania during the language arts instructional period. All of the teachers were involved in promoting a holistic approach to literacy.…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Curriculum, Curriculum Research, Elementary Education
Download full textHinnenkamp, Barbara – Insights into Open Education, 1991
In the 1988-89 school year, a teacher introduced whole language learning to teach reading and writing in her classroom while documenting and then evaluating its effect on a 12-year-old special needs student named Debbie. According to formal testing, Debbie was functioning in the moderately handicapped range of ability, and her speech and language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Language Skills
Otto, Beverly White; Iacono, Monica – 1990
The purpose of the study was to describe teachers' perceptions and experiences in implementing whole language activities in their kindergarten and elementary classrooms. Ten teachers who were part of a pilot whole language program participated in the study. Throughout the 1989-1990 school term, data were collected through teacher questionnaires…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Instructional Innovation, Learning Activities, Primary Education
Stice, Carol F.; And Others – 1991
A 1-year naturalistic study examined the differences and similarities in the literacy experiences of second grade at-risk children in 2 different types of classrooms: 1 traditional and 1 whole language classroom. The purpose was to develop models of the 2 contrasted classrooms. The study sought to shed light on the probable causes accounting for…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Grade 2
Thomas, Grace Gilliard – 1990
A study was conducted to address the problem of all students not learning to read in the same manner when the instruction was limited to only one approach, that of the basal reader with its phonics emphasis. The Reading Style Inventory, the Swassing-Barbe Modality Index, and the Bradway Quick Check were administered to the students attending the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Style, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Palmer, Barbara C.; And Others – 1989
A study investigated the effects of using daily newspapers to supplement normal classroom instruction with at-risk secondary school students. Subjects, 627 at-risk 8th- through 12th-grade students in 41 intact classes, were assigned to one of three conditions of newspaper usage over an 18-week period. The first group received newspapers three…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Research, Educational Research, High Risk Students
