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ERIC Number: EJ381882
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Big Books from Little Voices: Reaching High Risk Beginning Readers.
Trachtenburg, Phyllis; Ferruggia, Ann
Reading Teacher, v42 n4 p284-89 Jan 1989
Discusses how interactive, whole class techniques (using a student-generated Big Book adaptation of "Corduroy") improved the reading skills of high risk first grade readers. Describes several activities, including sight word strategies, decoding techniques, and word processing, and suggests 27 Big Books for use with these activities. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Collaborative Writing, Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1, High Risk Students, Language Experience Approach, Primary Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Strategies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Big Books; Pretend Reading; Repeated Readings; Shared Books