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Phadung, Muneeroh; Suksakulchai, Surachai; Kaewprapan, Wacheerapan – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
This study investigated the effects of using an interactive e-story for early literacy instruction on word recognition, story comprehension and story application. The study was conducted in two classrooms in the southern border provinces of Thailand with ethnic minority children at the kindergarten level. The samples consisted of 60 children who…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy, Ethnicity, Minority Groups
Hanlin, Jayne Ilene – Learning, 1992
A fifth grade teacher describes how by reading classic literature aloud to her students each day, she helped them along the road to literature-based learning. She discusses the advantages of the whole-language approach. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classical Literature, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation
Cunningham, Patricia M.; Allington, Richard L. – Learning, 1991
Describes how primary teachers can use decoding strategies within a literature-based, whole-language setting. A three-stage approach involves the book stage (real reading), the word stage (learning words), and the letter-sound stage (learning sounds). The article provides sample activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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White, Brian F. – Journal of Educational Research, 1995
This study investigated the effects of autobiographical writing before reading on ninth graders' discussion and understanding of two short stories. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of audiotaped class discussion revealed that students who had written about relevant personal experience before reading were more substantively engaged in…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Comprehension, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 9
Learning, 1991
This activity book uses the whole language approach to encourage young readers and prereaders to become critical listeners and viewers by comparing different versions of familiar fairy tales ("The Three Little Pigs" and "Beauty and the Beast"). Class activities, educational games, posters, and student activity pages are…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Fairy Tales
Carrasquillo, Angela, Ed.; Hedley, Carolyn, Ed. – 1993
Papers on the whole language approach in bilingual education include: "Whole Native Language Instruction for Limited-English-Proficient Students" (Angela L. Carrasquillo); "Communicative Competence and Whole Language Instruction in the Foreign Language Secondary School Classroom" (Rita Acuna-Reyes); "Literacy, Language, School, and Community: A…
Descriptors: Bilingual Special Education, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Change Strategies