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Download full textBrungardt, Susan – 1994
A study investigated the attitudes toward reading of third-grade students involved in a whole language program. The sample consisted of 71 students--48 students participated in the study group, and a control group consisted of 23 students. The independent variables were participation status, gender, socioeconomic status, race, qualification for…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes
Catoe, Elizabeth Anne – 1992
A study was conducted to determine ways in which student learning styles could be accommodated in a whole language classroom. The Reading Style Inventory (RSI) developed by Marie Carbo which follows the Dunn model of learning styles was chosen for the study. The RSI was administered to 10 students in 2 second/third combination grade whole language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Grade 2, Grade 3, Primary Education
Children's Perceptions of Fun and Work in Literacy Learning. Perspectives in Reading Research No. 7.
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
Richardson, Marcia; And Others – 1991
A study investigated whether there was a relation between methods of language arts instruction and reading comprehension as measured by the Cloze-procedure. Subjects, 88 third-grade students in 4 classes (2 "traditional" and 2 "whole language") at 2 elementary schools in South Dakota, had their reading comprehension tested 6…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cloze Procedure, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness
Burns-Paterson, Abigail L. – 1991
A study investigated whether students in whole language based and basal reader approaches would have different concepts of reading when asked to define reading. Subjects, 69 suburban New Jersey first and third graders and 16 New Zealand first graders, were asked 3 questions: "What is reading?"; "What do you do when you read?";…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Peery, Rebecca – 1996
A study determined the effect of shared writing activities on reading comprehension. The subjects, 40 second- and third-grade students from a suburban school in Mercer County, West Virginia, completed the Reading Comprehension Subtest of the Comprehension Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) for grade 2 as a pretest. A control group of 20 students were…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Friend, Anna Christine – 1995
A study attempted to determine how students in literature-based reading programs compare to students in basal-based, skill-oriented reading programs in terms of their interest in reading. The study was carried out on a sample of 215 pupils in 9 third and fifth grade classrooms from school districts in Eastern Kansas and Northeastern Oklahoma.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, English Curriculum
Peer reviewedBerglund, Roberta L.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1992
Examines the instructional beliefs and practices in reading of second and third grade teachers in selected schools in the United States and Australia. Compares the results to those of an earlier study. Finds that changes have occurred in both countries regarding the types of questions posed during reading instruction and the amount of praise used.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Grade 3
Kucer, Stephen B. – 1993
A study examined how two third-grade bilingual (Mexican-American) students resisted, appropriated, and/or internalized a whole language curriculum and the relationship between student interaction with and response to the whole language curriculum and their literacy development. Participant-observer ethnographic field notes recorded over an entire…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Classroom Research, Ethnography
