登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Motivating Reading and Writing in Diverse Classrooms
Lesley Mandel Morrow
其他書名
Social and Physical Contexts in a Literature-based Program
出版National Council of Teachers of English, 1996
主題Education / GeneralEducation / Schools / Levels / ElementaryEducation / Multicultural EducationEducation / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & PhonicsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching
ISBN08141156249780814115626
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=s68kAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋An 8-month study tracked 166 second graders of various ethnic backgrounds in an urban setting while they were being motivated to read through a literature-based reading and writing program. The classrooms in which the research was conducted used basal readers and did not have well-designed literacy centers. Collaboration was not an integral part of reading instruction. During the research project, some of these classrooms were converted into "experimental classrooms, "--Basal-based reading instruction was supplemented with literature-based instruction, literacy centers were created, and students were given opportunities for collaborative literacy activities. Students were randomly selected for the experimental classrooms; the remaining classrooms were used as controls. On several quantitative measures of comprehension, students in the experimental classrooms performed significantly better than the others. Qualitative data were also collected (interviews, observations) to measure attitudes toward traditional and experimental reading instruction, to determine the types of literacy activities students in experimental rooms participated in, and to identify the interactive behaviors that motivate reading and writing. Findings suggest that a good case can be made for the inclusion of literature and collaborative activities in reading instruction and that a balanced approach to reading instruction is superior to one based solely on the use of basal readers. (Contains 6 tables of data, one figure, and 143 references; appendixes list storybooks used for testing and children's literature references.) (NKA).