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Independent Activities: A Necessity, Not A Frill
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Wallen, Carl J. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Attempts to resolve the contradiction between motivating children and teaching them certain reading skills by organizing them into two complementary types of groups, direct instruction and independent activities. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Group Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction
Strategy Access Rods: A Hands-On Approach.
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Worthing, Bernadette; Laster, Barbara – Reading Teacher, 2002
Describes Strategy Access Rods (SARs), balsa-wood, prism-like or rectangular rods on which a one-sentence reading strategy phrase in the first person is printed. Notes SARs serve as a visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile reminder of the strategies available to developing readers. Discusses use of SARs for word recognition and comprehension.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Group Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Learning Strategies
Group Instruction in a Language-Experience Approach
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Henderson, Edmund H. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Group Instruction, Language Experience Approach
The Printout: Only One Computer in the Classroom?
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Balajthy, Ernest – Reading Teacher, 1987
Offers some suggestions for using a microcomputer in class when only one work station is available. (JC)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Characteristics of Black Schools at Grade Level: a Description
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Hoover, Mary Rhodes – Reading Teacher, 1978
Describes successful black schools where students do read at grade level. (MKM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Literature, Black Students, Group Instruction
Using a Black Learning Style
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Cureton, George O. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Describes an action approach to teaching reading to black children which matches a black learning style. (MKM)
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Group Instruction
Experimental Results that Question the Ramirez-Castaneda Model for Teaching Reading to First Grade Mexican Americans.
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Cohen, S. Alan; Rodriquez, Samuel – Reading Teacher, 1980
Results of a study conducted with first-grade Mexican American children indicate that direct reading instruction to precise behavioral objectives is more effective than teaching to Mexican American children's supposed "cultural learning styles" as recommended by Manuel Ramirez and Alfredo Castaneda in 1974. (GT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1, Group Instruction, Hispanic American Culture
Commentary: Learning to Read, Learning Community: Considerations of the Social Contexts for Literacy Instruction.
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Rasinski, Timothy V.; Nathenson-Mejia, Sally – Reading Teacher, 1987
Suggests that reading programs should be structured to include group work and interaction so that children gain a sense of "I-Thou" community through reading instruction. (JC)
Descriptors: Altruism, Classroom Environment, Cooperation, Elementary Education