This paper reviews research on grouping of students within classes and its effects on
learning. Primary consideration is given to grouping and mixing students by ability, though …

Recent research on educational contexts of literacy has focused primarily on a set of central
issues and debates: definitions of literacy; basic cognitive, social, and linguistic processes …

Understanding the amount and breadth of stu-dents' reading is important because reading is
central to a variety of cultural practices; we concur with sociolinguists who suggest that …

This study focuses on students' initiations during teacher-led read-alouds of information
books in a US urban first grade classroom. The teacher's use of interactive read-alouds …

The purpose of this study was to investigate what students internalized from the dialogue
that occurs during the writing period in a process writing classroom. Using a social …

Research Findings: The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relationship
between classroom age composition and preschoolers' vocabulary gains over an academic …

The 24 first graders in Anne Barry's classroom were gathered at the back of the room in a
semi-circle for a teacher-led read-aloud of the information book Monarch Butterflies …

Reviews theoretical and empirical work completed since 1980 on the connections between
reading and writing. Three perspectives on these connections are addressed. The shared …

Te small-group reading lesson is pervasive in el-ementary schools throughout the United
States. Austin and Morrison (1963) were among the first to document the widespread use of …

Since its inception, the team of microcomputer and word processing program has en-joyed a
comfortable alliance with writers. Computers with their word processing programs facilitate …