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[A Curriculum Plan For Teaching Prereading And Beginning Reading Skills To Kindergarten Children Using The Language Experience Approach], Shelby Scott
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The purpose of this project was to develop and execute an effective method of teaching prereading and beginning reading skills to kindergarten children using the language experience approach in a center-oriented classroom. The ultimate goal was to have, at the end of the kindergarten year, a roomful of children who felt good about themselves, talked freely and expressively, demonstrated a measure of independence, imagination and creativity, understood and used some basic reading skills, [...]
The Use Of Children's Literature In Improving The Secondary Remedial Reader's Attitude Toward And Fluency In Reading, Jane Watson
The Use Of Children's Literature In Improving The Secondary Remedial Reader's Attitude Toward And Fluency In Reading, Jane Watson
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A six week course in children's literature was taught to ten alternative tenth through twelfth grade students. The purposes were to determine if the secondary student's attitude toward and fluency in reading were improved by working in easy and pleasurable material. The Estes Attitude Scale and an informal reading inventory were administered to the students at the start and end of the course. No statistically significant difference was found in the attitude scale, but reading fluency increased significantly.