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Berglund, Roberta L.; And Others – 1991
This study examined, through classroom observations and teacher surveys, the instructional beliefs and practices in reading of second- and third-grade teachers in selected schools in the United States and Australia. Australian participants consisted of 16 second-grade and 11 third-grade teachers in New South Wales; American participants were 17…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
Download full textMahurt, Sarah F. – 1993
A case study examined the decision-making process that impelled a teacher to change her literacy instructional practices and the change process she went through when adopting new practices. The teacher (who has taught first grade for 5 years at an elementary school in a large Caribbean island school district) volunteered to try whole language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Whale, Kathleen B.; And Others – 1993
Exploring what happened in the classroom as a teacher used a whole language approach with her culturally varied, urban fourth-grade students, this report tells the story of a unit on personal, narrative writing which occurred from April to June. The report describes how the teacher established routines to make the unit work, and how the teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
