The purpose of this study was to document the ways reading instructional materials are used by elementary classroom teachers and how reading instructional materials are selected by elementary classroom teachers in one midwestern school district. The first objective of this study was to document how teachers use materials for elementary reading instruction in grades one through five. Additional objectives were to document the materials selected by classroom teachers and to explore the influences placed on teachers in their selection of materials for elementary reading instruction. / The methods employed in this case study involved the collection of qualitative data through nonparticipant observation, interviewing and document analysis. The collection and interpretation of data framed the presentation of participant narratives. / Assertions constituting grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss,1967) were formulated from this study into three emergent themes. (1) Constructing multiple perspectives: the participant teachers constructed varying perspectives toward the delivery of reading instruction in their classrooms. (2) Weighing influences: there are many influences, both enabling and potentially constrictive, that surround teachers' decisions in the use and selection of materials to deliver reading instruction. (3) Teacher change over time: participant teachers demonstrated during the interview process that they had undergone change over time in the way/ways they approach the use and selection of materials for reading instruction. / The results of this study suggest that a shift from close adherence in the use of the adopted basal textbook to the usage of a variety of materials in addition to and/or in place of the basal textbook appears to have been made by all district teachers participating in this study. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2334. / Major Professor: Carol Lynch-Brown. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77213 |
| Contributors | Simpson, Sally Walker., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 162 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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