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Peer reviewedReading Teacher, 1981
Contains contributions from five educators concerning the following topics: (1) the "Super Sounder" system of presenting phonics instruction to beginning readers, (2) teaching vocabulary in a multigrade classroom, (3) language experience and basal readers, (4) pacing as a key to successful drill work, and (5) creative ways to encourage reading.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Multigraded Classes
Peer reviewedWilkinson, Ian A. G.; Hamilton, Richard J. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2003
Examined why New Zealand elementary students in composite versus single-grade classes showed slightly lower reading performance, comparing the range of students' reading abilities, the nature of teachers' groupings, and other aspects of instruction in pairs of composite and single-grade classes from nine schools. Composite classes did not appear…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Heterogeneous Grouping
Peer reviewedGreene, Beth G., Ed. – Reading Psychology, 1997
States that the concept of nongraded classrooms has flourished in educational circles since the days of the one-room schoolhouse, and that researchers have found that students in multiage classrooms form peer relationships that show more advanced socialization skills. Offers an annotated bibliography of 12 articles from the ERIC database on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Flexible Progression, Mixed Age Grouping
Download full textHawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. – 1974
One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program is designed to accommodate all types of learners in the same multigraded classroom. Reading skills study each day begins with a planning circle, where each…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individual Reading, Individualized Reading, Language Arts
