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Pheasant, Marilyn – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
This bulletin describes a first-grade "readiness program" developed at the Aumsville (Oregon) School District to help children who have been found to be at risk in a standard first-grade program. These students attend a readiness first grade designed to assist their development emotionally, socially, physically, and academically and only…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Download full textPaths to Success, 1996
The first in a series reporting on strategies to improve children's readiness for school and to help schools be better prepared to meet the needs of all children, this report traces Arkansas' efforts to improve reading instruction. This issue discusses the following topics: (1) Reading in the First Grade: Now or Never? (2) Limitations and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Reading, Grade 1, Primary Education
Mills, Heidi; O'Keefe, Timothy – Insights into Open Education, 1990
A case study of an at-risk student in a whole language "transition first grade" (representing an extra year between kindergarten and first grade) classroom chronicles her transition from an anxious and withdrawn student to an enthusiastic learner. Although it took nearly a month for the student to relax in the classroom, she then responded eagerly…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Emergent Literacy
