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ERIC Number: EJ676084
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Learning To Read in Kindergarten: Has Curriculum Development Bypassed the Controversies?
Joyce, Bruce; Hrycauk, Marilyn; Calhoun, Emily
Phi Delta Kappan, v85 n2 p126-32 Oct 2003
District staff members and teachers in the Northern Lights School Division of Alberta designed a formal reading curriculum for kindergarten. In the first year, all 141 kindergarten-age students were included in the study. Their progress equaled that of students in average first-grade classrooms, and none of them failed. (Contains 14 references.) (MLF)
Descriptors: Action Research, Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten Children, Reading Instruction, Staff Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Alberta
Note: With the Northern Lights Kindergarten Teachers.