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Download full textMadden, Nancy A.; And Others – 1986
To determine whether a comprehensive, cooperative learning approach can be used effectively in elementary reading and writing instruction, a study evaluated the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) program. Experimental subjects, 11 third- and fourth-grade CIRC classes, worked in heterogeneous learning teams for all reading,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities
Peer reviewedPitts, Sandra K. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Describes the reading and writing laboratory program at the University of Albuquerque. (FL)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Laboratories
Morocco, Catherine Cobb; And Others – 1989
This report describes a federally funded project to study integration of computers into the writing instruction of classroom teachers, and evaluates the impact of a computer-supported writing program on instruction, on the writing process, and on products of normally achieving and learning-disabled (LD) students. The study compared the impact of a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Activities
Mallonee, Barbara C.; Breihan, John R. – 1984
Noting that most writing across the curriculum programs have been dominated by the thinking of members of the English or composition departments, this paper describes the program developed at Loyola College (Maryland), which involved collaboration between writing specialists and content area teachers. The paper first describes the Loyola…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Cooperation, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1983
The Success in Reading and Writing Program (Success) developed by Anne Adams incorporates ideas from many approaches to reading instruction. It uses newspapers, magazines, library books, content area textbooks, catalogs, and other reading materials; it requires an instructional period that is divided into four or five units of one-half hour each;…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Integrated Activities, Program Content
Madden, Nancy A.; And Others – 1986
The Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition Program (CIRC), which combines individualized instruction with cooperative learning, was evaluated in two studies. In the first study, 461 third and fourth graders were pulled out of their reading classes for part or all of the reading period over a 12-week period and CIRC was implemented. In the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Activities
