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Garofalo, Carol – 1991
A descriptive study determined the extent to which the language experience approach (LEA) is used in the kindergarten and first grades of six northwest Bergen County, New Jersey, school districts. Anonymous surveys were mailed to all kindergarten and first-grade teachers in these districts. Forty-five (63%) of the surveys were returned. Results…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Educational Research, Grade 1, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedDahl, Karin L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Suggests that spontaneous utterances of first-grade inner-city children in whole-language classrooms in two urban sites reveal five trends in learner perceptions of beginning reading and writing: (1) metacognitive statements reporting learner self-appraisal and self-management; (2) sound/symbol relations; (3) hypotheses about reading; (4) patterns…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Grade 1, Inner City
Download full textDahl, Karin L.; Freppon, Penny A. – 1994
A cross-curricular comparison focused on learner interpretations of beginning reading and writing instruction in skills-based and whole language inner-city classrooms across kindergarten and first grade. Subjects, 48 low socioeconomic-status students in four classrooms in two midwestern cities, were observed during literacy instruction twice…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Comparative Analysis, Inner City
