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Constructing the Big Picture: A Working Class Family Supports Their Daughter's Pathways to Literacy
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McTavish, Marianne – Reading Teacher, 2007
This article examines the historical literacy experiences and current literacy practices of the parents of one working class family as they shape the literacy learning of their four-year-old daughter. Data collected from field notes, observations, and videotaped interviews of the parents and daughter were analyzed and events sorted into categories…
Descriptors: Place of Residence, Daughters, Working Class, Emergent Literacy
Breakthrough in Beginning Reading: Language Experience Approach
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Pienaar, Peter T. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Describes and evaluates "Breakthrough to Literacy," a beginning reading scheme based on the language experience approach and launched in Saskatoon, Canada schools in 1974. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Program Descriptions
Gains of Fifth and Sixth Grade Readers from In-School Tutoring.
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Bessai, Frederick; Cozac, Con – Reading Teacher, 1980
Results of a Canadian study show that students with mild to medium reading disabilities benefited from tutorial remediation and continued to make normal progress the next nine months. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Inner City Canadian Native and Non-Native Pupils' Achievement in Reading, Writing, and Speaking.
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Taschow, Horst G. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Reports the findings of a matched-group study showing that the academic achievement of native Canadian elementary school children was not significantly different from that of their nonnative peers. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Canada Natives, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries