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Strickland, Dorothy S.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel – Reading Teacher, 1988
Suggests ways to provide special spaces and materials in early childhood classrooms that promote literacy development, including classroom library centers, writing centers, and content area centers. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education
Marks, Tracey A.; And Others – 1994
A study describes the process of two first-grade teachers incorporating the Reading Recovery process of "roaming around the known" in their regular classrooms. Their purpose was to assess what their students knew about print. Data collection for these case studies took place for 16 weeks late in 1992; participants included 49 first-grade…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Design, Elementary School Teachers
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Nachbar, Randa Roen – Young Children, 1989
Describes the "workability" of a K/1--kindergarten/first grade--multi-age classroom. (BB)
Descriptors: Admission (School), Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Design
MARITA, SISTER M. – 1965
TO ASSESS DIFFERENCES IN READING ACHIEVEMENT, READING ATTITUDE, AND READING PROGRESS OF FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN OF HIGH AND LOW MENTAL ABILITIES DIFFERENT CLASSROOM ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS WERE USED. EACH ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN PROVIDED A DIFFERENT LEARNING SITUATION OR "TREATMENT." THE STUDY SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 32 TEACHERS AND 810 CHILDREN…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Gains, Beginning Reading, Classroom Design
Gordon, Sandra L.; Van Dongen, Richard – Insights into Open Education, 1988
Noting that the ways children encounter and use print in the classroom can be examined as surface and organizing content of curriculum, this article provides descriptions of innovative uses of print in the kindergarten and elementary school classroom. Curriculum "surface content" includes activities, use of classroom space, display, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Curriculum
Strickland, Dorothy S., Ed.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Ed. – 1989
Designed to be scholarly in content and grounded in research and at the same time be practical and usable for day care workers, classroom teachers, and curriculum specialists, this book discusses various aspects of the view that children's literacy development is a continuous process beginning in infancy with exposure to oral language, written…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Design, Day Care