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Teaching Practices and Beliefs in Elementary Specialty Schools.

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Zahorik, John A. – Elementary School Journal, 1980

Examines a variety of teaching practices in several types of specialty schools that have an instructional emphasis and investigates the attitudes of teachers in those schools. A total of 117 teachers from grades K-6 in eight elementary schools participated in this study. (MP)

Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Differences

Characteristics of Tasks in Two Approaches to Literacy Instruction.

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Fisher, Charles W.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Elementary School Journal, 1990

Uses a task perspective to examine literature-based and skills-oriented approaches to literacy in second and sixth grade classes. Results confirm that the literature-based method encourages higher order thinking, whereas the skills-oriented method promotes performance of small, simple tasks. (DG)

Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Activities