| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Ainsworth, Mary "Kitty" Taylor
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| Author's Email Address |
kta@cox.net |
| URN |
etd-08142008-092027 |
| Title |
An Investigation into the Implementation of the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum Reading/English Language Arts in Selected First Grade Classrooms |
| Degree |
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
| Department |
Educational Theory, Policy, & Practice |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Cheek, Earl |
Committee Chair |
| Lafayette, Robert |
Committee Member |
| Wandersee, James |
Committee Member |
| Blanchard, Pam |
Committee Member |
| Freeman, Craig |
Dean's Representative |
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| Keywords |
- Comprehensive Curriculum
- No Child Left Behind
- curriculum
- high-stakes testing
- school accountability
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| Date of Defense |
2008-07-09 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This case study investigates the implementation of the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum English Language Arts in selected first grade classes. The teaching of the specific language arts skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as directed the the Comprehensive Curriculum is examined. Four first grade teachers from a large urban school district, from an original sixteen first grade teachers, are observed during the hour and a half literacy instruction block once a week over a period of four weeks. These same four teachers are interviewed one-on-one by the researcher during the two interview sessions. Three themes developed throughout the observation from all four classes: phonics instruction, reading instruction, and language arts instruction. The investigation determined that this sampling of grade one teachers were implementing the Comprehensive Curriculum English Language Arts by means of integrating the instruction into both the phonics instruction and reading instruction.
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