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Brennan, Alison – 1990
This study was conducted to determine the effect that hands-on, creative activity using the Language Experience Approach would have on language usage in students' written stories. Twenty-five fifth grade students were randomly divided into three sample groups. Sample A received hands-on, creative stimulus and art materials; Sample B looked at and…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Language Experience Approach
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Evans, Mary Ann; Carr, Thomas H. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Compares two groups of primary-grade classrooms differing in their instructional approach to beginning reading to assess the relationship between learning activities, cognitive ability, and reading skill. (HOD)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Pittelman, Susan D.; Levin, Kathy M. – 1985
A research project was undertaken to explore the effects of using a microcomputer equipped with a speech synthesizer to enhance and aid in the individualization of the language experience approach in beginning reading instruction. A prototypic program was developed and pilot-tested with 12 kindergarten children over a three-week period, with each…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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Page, William D.; Pinnell, Gay Su – 1979
Based on the premise that comprehension must be the true and final goal of all instruction in reading, this book is designed to provoke teachers' reflections about their own ideas, reading, language, and experiences as teachers of reading comprehension and to help them base their teaching decisions on a knowledge of theory and research about how…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Language Acquisition