The First R Yesterday and Today: U.S. Elementary Reading Instruction Practices Reported by Teachers and Administrators

• Published in: Reading research quarterly Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 338 - 377
• Main Authors: Baumann, James F., Hoffman, James V., Duffy-Hester, Ann M., Ro, Jennifer Moon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2000; International Reading Association
• Subjects: childhood; Curriculum subjects: programmes and methods; early childhood; Educational History; Educational sciences; Elementary Education; Emergent Literacy; inservice; instructional; Instructional Effectiveness; learner; management; methodology; Phonics; policy; profdev; Public Schools; Reading Instruction; Reading Research; Reading, writing; strategies; supervision; survey; Teachers; Teaching Methods; topic; type; USA; Teaching method; Reading; School Library; Teachers training; Literacy

ABSTRACTS This study was a modified replication of Austin and Morrison's classic 1963 study of the status of U.S. public school elementary reading instruction, The First R: The Harvard Report on Reading in Elementary Schools. Surveys modeled after those used in The First R were distributed to a...