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Wuryani; Yufiarti – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The objective of this research was to discover the effect of teaching methods and learning styles on the student's ability to write essays. This study was conducted in elementary school in East Jakarta. The population of this studies was 3rd-grade elementary school students who study in East Jakarta. Samples were taken with stratified cluster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Style, Writing Ability
West, Jane – 1994
A study explored 18 Georgia third graders' perceptions of literacy teaching and learning during the second year of their teacher's transition from a traditional, textbook-based approach to a whole language, literature-based approach. Data gathering included 8 months of observation and of in-depth interviews with students. Analysis revealed that…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
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McIntyre, Ellen – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1995
Investigates writing skills learned in a low socioeconomic status, urban, primary, whole-language classroom. Finds that the children became more fluent writers who used more complex sentences, but the surface level skills used for some purposes did not become automatic. Suggests that some children need more opportunities for editing and…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Socioeconomic Status, Urban Schools
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Strategic Planning/Research and Development. – 1993
During school year 1991-92, the Whole Language Network (WLN) expanded to include 90 teachers in grades kindergarten through six in three school districts participating in the New York City Board of Education's Comprehensive Instructional Management System-Communication Arts project. The Network assisted teachers in using the whole language…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
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Wollman-Bonilla, Julie E. – Language Arts, 1991
Describes a collaborative professional development project designed to bring whole language knowledge to more classroom teachers. Discusses one staff developer's work with a second grade teacher. Argues that staff developers must (1) know and respect teachers; (2) provide ongoing support; and (3) link theory and practice. Concludes that staff…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Faculty Development, Grade 2, Inservice Teacher Education
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Kucer, Stephen B. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1999
Considers different responses of two third-grade bilingual students to an English whole-language literacy curriculum. Examines how the students resisted, appropriated, and/or internalized a whole-language curriculum. Discusses the relationship between student curricular interactions and their literacy development. (SC)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Fitzgerald, Jill; Stamm, Carol – 1990
A study described the influence of writing conferences on revision knowledge and revision activity for an initially knowledgeable first-grade reviser and a relatively naive one. Subjects, two first-grade students in a whole language classroom, were chosen from the 16 students in the class for close study. Data analysis consisted of reading all of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
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Freppon, Penny A.; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1995
Reports on a two-year descriptive study of eight low-income children's writing in skills-based and whole language instruction. Finds that the students at the "top" did well in whole language instruction, and for less proficient learners, the whole language curriculum appeared to provide more support. (RS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Childrens Writing, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
Schwab, R. G. Jerry; And Others – 1992
This four-document collection describes the implementation processes of dramatically improved literacy programs in elementary schools which are leading the move to restructure literacy education in the Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington). The first document in the collection, "Strategies for Improving School-Wide…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation
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Dahl, Karin L.; Freppon, Penny A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1995
Observes low socioeconomic-level learners during literacy instruction for two years. Finds similarities in learner concern about accuracy. Notes that cross-curricular differences centered on applications of phonics knowledge, responses to literature, coping strategies, and learner perceptions of themselves as readers and writers. Finds a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Phonics, Primary Education
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Kuball, Yazmin Elizabeth; Peck, Sabrina – Bilingual Research Journal, 1997
A yearlong study investigated the effects of whole language-based instruction on the writing development of eight Spanish-speaking and eight English-speaking kindergarten children. The writing skills of the Spanish-speaking children developed similarly to those of the English-speaking children, refuting rationales used to place Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children, Limited English Speaking
McIntyre, Ellen – 1993
A study investigated how writing skills were taught and learned in one low-SES, urban, whole language primary classroom. Participants were three teachers who team-taught a group of primary-age children and 11 children who were considered conventional writers, 3 of whom had learning disabilities. Teachers and children were observed twice a month…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Journal Writing
Johnson, Andrew P. – 2001
This ethnographic study was conducted in order to (1) investigate the forces affecting the literacy practices of first year teachers, (2) examine factors that foster the creativity, innovation and growth of teachers, and (3) describe some exemplary literacy practices of beginning teachers. Three beginning teachers in an urban midwestern school…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Ethnography, Inservice Teacher Education, Primary Education
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Dreher, Mariam Jean – Early Child Development and Care, 1990
Early childhood education majors enrolled in a reading methods course completed a questionnaire on teaching writing. In general, the students supported a process approach to teaching writing, believed that such an approach could be easily implemented in a classroom, and intended to use a process approach themselves. (PCB)
Descriptors: Education Majors, Emergent Literacy, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Herrmann, Beth Ann; Sarracino, Jeri – 1991
A study examined the efffect of a restructured preservice literacy methods course on the attitudes and beliefs of three preservice teachers. The major goals of the restructured course were to develop substantive and lasting changes in the preservice teachers' conceptual understandings and theoretical perspectives about literacy teaching, and to…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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