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Download full textYackanicz, Linda – 2000
This study investigated the use of a writing-prompt software program, "The Ultimate Writing and Creativity Center," by two reluctant writers (two third-grade students attending a school in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and compared their work with their pencil and paper writing. Given that computers are effective tools for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness
Bradshaw, Paula – 2001
Reading Recovery has proved to be an effective intervention for meeting the needs of at-risk first graders. When Reading Recovery is not fully implemented in a school, the teacher then assumes responsibility for intervention. This project addresses how a regular education, first grade classroom teacher can best meet the needs of first grade…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Intervention, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Meece, Nell Shelton – 1992
A case study gathered information about the environment of Reading Recovery, a one-on-one tutorial approach to helping first-graders who have problems learning to read, in an elementary school in an upper middle class suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Interviews were conducted with the five Reading Recovery students, their Reading Recovery teacher,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Early Intervention, Grade 1
Ihata, Anne C. – 1993
This study investigated patterns of acquisition of English and Japanese by a toddler, aged 16-23 months, living in Japan. The child's mother and father are British and Japanese, respectively. The focus of the study was on early grammatical morpheme and transformational rule acquisition as demonstrated in the child's utterances. The study is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Cultural Pluralism
Russin, Irene – 1995
This is a study of two sixth-grade classes at Bayshore Middle School (Middletown, New Jersey) who were enrolled in a 7-week keyboarding class. The first class met from October 31 through December 23, 1994; the second class met from January 3 through March 1, 1995. The instruction of the first group was teacher directed, and the students typed from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
Wigglesworth, Pierre Giles – 1992
A unit in a Glendale, California sixth grade social studies curriculum is presented as a model for addressing two problems in the instruction of the growing population of limited English-proficient (LEP) students: (1) inadequate teacher training; and (2) shortage of appropriate, effective instructional materials. For the curriculum segment on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ancient History, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
