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Hicks, Deborah – Research in the Teaching of English, 1997
Explores possible benefits of placing considerations of genre as more central to dialogs and debates about language arts education. Aims for a theoretical framework emphasizing the responsive and agentive engagement of students working through disciplinary literacies. Considers ways in which one first-grade teacher helped a non-middle-class…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Discourse Modes, Grade 1
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Richards, Janet C.; Gipe, Joan P. – Reading: Exploration and Discovery, 1990
Demonstrates how a real first grade teacher in a real classroom covers district objectives for reading and language arts within the context of a whole language philosophy. Illustrates how the teacher recognizes the needs of the students and encourages them to participate in making decisions about what activities are included in the unit. (MG)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Grade 1, Integrated Activities, Language Arts
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Wuthrick, Marjorie A. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes how the introduction of information books into a first grade classroom led a "traditional" teacher to provide students with a wider variety of literary experiences and allow students the opportunity for more active involvement in books. Notes that the classroom evolved into a child-centered environment where each child reads and writes…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Holistic Approach, Language Arts, Nonfiction
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Usova, Constance J.; Usova, George M. – Reading Improvement, 1993
Describes an intensive integrated art and language arts instructional program for first-grade at-risk children. Notes that a combination of whole language, language experience, and basal reading approaches. Finds a marked improvement in reading, writing ability, and language ability. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Education, Basal Reading, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Dillon, Patty H. – 1997
A study compared an integrated language arts reading program and a strong phonics basal reading program. Subjects were first graders from five eastern Greenbrier County schools in West Virginia. The control group consisted of students in 15 classrooms, during the 1994-95 school year, when a strong phonics basal reading program was taught and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Curriculum
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Mancus, Dianne Sirna; Hill, Angela – National Association of Laboratory Schools Journal, 1992
Identifies factors, both helpful and obstructive, influencing teachers' transition from basal to a whole-language curriculum. Observations from two first-grade classrooms and interviews with school principals and two classroom teachers (one whole-language veteran and the other in transition into whole language) are evaluated. (GLR)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Grade 1, Instructional Innovation
Tyler, Barbara – 1993
This study sought to determine how retained first grade students function in a whole language classroom after meeting with failure in a traditional first grade setting. Data collection for the five retained students, plus six "at-risk" students, involved naturalistic observation. Reading began from language experience stories that the students…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Philosophy, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Buswinka, Helen F. – 1993
The case study presented in this paper describes the thinking-in-action of a first grade teacher who, within the natural setting of her classroom, was constructing a new way of teaching language arts by changing to a whole language approach. In contrast to traditional implementation models, this study highlights the constitutive nature of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Constructivism (Learning)