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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED292061 AUTHOR: Pinnell, Gay Su
TITLE: Success of Children at Risk in a Program That
Combines Writing and Reading. Technical Report No. 417.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1988
NOTE: 27 p.; Portions of this paper presented at the
Conference on Reading and Writing Connections (Urbana
Champaign, IL, October 19-21, 1986). This paper will appear
in "Reading and Writing Connections," Jana Mason, Ed.
ABSTRACT: A study examined the processes and results of
children's involvement in interrelated reading/writing
activities. First, descriptions of 23 children's reading
and writing behavior were drawn from a group of case
studies of children who were participating in Reading
Recovery, an early intervention program that targets first
grade children at risk of failure in reading. Examination
of teachers' daily records of reading and writing and of
children's writing samples indicated that when given
opportunities to engage in related reading and writing,
children did connect those processes in a variety of ways.
Second, outcome data were examined to document results of
children's participating in this integrated program. Eight
dependent variables were used to compare two groups of
children (133 in all) who participated in the program with
a group of 37 that participated in another program.
Comparisons indicated that children who were deliberately
engaged in an integrated program achieved higher scores on
both reading and writing measures. Children who were daily
engaged in holistic lessons that included reading and
writing and stories and messages achieved accelerated
progress. (Five data tables and nine figures are included,
and 18 references are appended.) (Author/JK)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Basal-Reading; Grade-1; Primary-Education;
Reading-Ability; Reading-Improvement; Reading-Research;
Reading-Skills; Reading-Teachers; Student-Writing-Models;
Teacher-Role; Writing-Instruction; Writing-Skills
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Reading-Difficulties; *Reading
Instruction; *Reading-Programs; *Reading-Writing
Relationship
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