The Effectiveness of Language Arts and Basic Reader Approaches to First-Grade Reading Instruction--Extended into Third Grade

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell G. Stauffer ◽  
W. Dorsey Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Language Arts ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Third Grade

How Teachers Would Spend Their Time Teaching Language Arts

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 418-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne E. Cunningham ◽  
Jamie Zibulsky ◽  
Keith E. Stanovich ◽  
Paula J. Stanovich
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Special Education Teacher ◽  
Implicit Beliefs ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Literacy Knowledge ◽  
Children's Literacy

As teacher quality becomes a central issue in discussions of children’s literacy, both researchers and policy makers alike express increasing concern with how teachers structure and allocate their lesson time for literacy-related activities as well as with what they know about reading development, processes, and pedagogy. The authors examined the beliefs, literacy knowledge, and proposed instructional practices of 121 first-grade teachers. Through teacher self-reports concerning the amount of instructional time they would prefer to devote to a variety of language arts activities, the authors investigated the structure of teachers’ implicit beliefs about reading instruction and explored relationships between those beliefs, expertise with general or special education students, years of experience, disciplinary knowledge, and self-reported distribution of an array of instructional practices. They found that teachers’ implicit beliefs were not significantly associated with their status as a regular or special education teacher, the number of years they had been teaching, or their disciplinary knowledge. However, it was observed that subgroups of teachers who highly valued particular approaches to reading instruction allocated their time to instructional activities associated with other approaches in vastly different ways. It is notable that the practices of teachers who privileged reading literature over other activities were not in keeping with current research and policy recommendations. Implications and considerations for further research are discussed.

Classroom Teacher and Speech Clinician Severity Ratings of Different Speech Disorders

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Wertz ◽  
Michael D. Mead
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Cleft Palate ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Speech Disorders ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Classroom Teachers

Typical examples of four different speech disorders—voice, cleft palate, articulation, and stuttering—were ranked for severity by kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade, and third-grade teachers and by public school speech clinicians. Results indicated that classroom teachers, as a group, moderately agreed with speech clinicians regarding the severity of different speech disorders, and classroom teachers displayed significantly more agreement among themselves than did the speech clinicians.

Normal Variation in Reading Acquisition

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 691-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Wise Berninger
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Verbal Ability ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Normal Variation ◽  
Word Decoding ◽  
Linguistic Skills ◽  
Whole Word ◽  
Reading And Spelling

Visual, linguistic, reading, and spelling tests were administered to the same 45 children at the end of kindergarten and of first grade. Normal variation, i.e., diversity not related to pathology, was found in the visual and linguistic skills and was shown to be related to reading and spelling achievement for a sample of suburban children of similar socioeconomic status. Individual differences in three visual skills—selective attention to letter information (RT), memory for a component letter (accuracy), and memory for a whole word (accuracy)—and two linguistic skills—phonemic analysis and vocabulary understanding—were reliable over the first year of formal reading instruction and had concurrent validity in that they were correlated with achievement in word decoding/encoding at the end of kindergarten and of first grade. Of these five skills, phonemic analysis accounted for more variance in achievement (52% to 64%, depending upon achievement measure) than any other single skill. Significantly mote variance in achievement was accounted for when both a visual skill (memory for a sequence) and a linguistic skill (phonemic analysis) were considered than when either alone was at end of first grade. The predictive validity of quantitatively defined “disabilities” (at or more than a standard deviation below the mean) was investigated; disabilities in both visual and linguistic skills at the end of kindergarten were associated with low achievement in word decoding/encoding at the end of first grade. Two pairs of identical twin girls (each co-twin taught by a different teacher) were not mote congruent on several achievement measures than two pairs of unrelated girls, taught by the same teacher and matched to each other and a twin pair on verbal ability and age. Normal variation in acquisition of word decoding/encoding probably results from an interaction between genetic individual differences in cognitive skills and the processes of assimilation and accommodation during environmental transactions proposed by Piaget.

A Comparative Study of Two First-Grade Language Arts Programs

1966 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Kendrick ◽  
Clayton L. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Arts Programs

Third Grade Gives a Poetry Program

1942 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-17
Author(s):  
Holger W. Andersen ◽  
Inez Elliott Andersen
Keyword(s):  
First Grade ◽  
Third Grade

—with resulting pleasure to themselves and their first grade audiences, plus some lasting benefits.

Visual—Auditory matching of trigrams in first-grade and third-grade reading achievement

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-326
Author(s):  
Maurine A. Fry ◽  
Marilyn J. Haring ◽  
Joyce H. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Reading Achievement ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Third Grade Reading

Effectiveness of a Supplemental Early Reading Intervention Scaled up in Multiple Schools

2010 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Denton ◽  
Kim Nimon ◽  
Patricia G. Mathes ◽  
Elizabeth A. Swanson ◽  
Caroline Kethley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Reading Intervention ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Early Reading ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Supplemental Reading ◽  
Early Reading Intervention ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Typical School

This effectiveness study examined a supplemental reading intervention that may be appropriate as one component of a response-to-intervention (RTI) system. First-grade students in 31 schools who were at risk for reading difficulties were randomly assigned to receive Responsive Reading Instruction (RRI; Denton, 2001; Denton & Hocker, 2006; n = 182) or typical school practice (TSP; n = 40). About 43% of the TSP students received an alternate school-provided supplemental reading intervention. Results indicated that the RRI group had significantly higher outcomes than the TSP group on multiple measures of reading. About 91% of RRI students and 79% of TSP students met word reading criteria for adequate intervention response, but considerably fewer met a fluency benchmark.

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