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Kersting, Frank; Ferguson, Janice – 1988
A case study examined the whole-part application of the language experience approach to reading as used for students whose reading development is severely delayed. The subject, a third-grade female student reading on the first-grade level as determined by the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised (Woodcock, 1987), participated in a reading…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Language Experience Approach, Language Skills
Purcell-Gates, Victoria – 1986
Educators suggest that children whose families have read to them during their preschool years acquire lexical and syntactic knowledge of sentence-level features typical of written narrative before they begin formal literacy instruction. To test this claim, to discern growth in this knowledge over time and experience, and to describe the lexical…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education