Walking with Rosie: A Cautionary Tale of Early Reading Instruction.

Juel, Connie; Biancarosa, Gina; Coker, David; Deffes, Rebecca

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ERIC Number: EJ666022

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Walking with Rosie: A Cautionary Tale of Early Reading Instruction.

Juel, Connie; Biancarosa, Gina; Coker, David; Deffes, Rebecca

Educational Leadership, v60 n7 p12-18 Apr 2003

Work with a longitudinal low-income sample of almost 200 early readers revealed that schools that focus entirely on teaching decoding skills in the early grades neglect the essential vocabulary knowledge that students need to become competent readers. (Contains 20 references and 5 tables.) (MLF)

Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Learning Problems, Reading Fluency, Reading Research, Vocabulary Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers

Language: English

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