EJ607871 CS759391
Title: 3.6 Minutes per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade.
Author(s): Duke, Nell K.
Source: Reading Research Quarterly, v35 n2 p202-24 Apr-Jun 2000
Publication Date: 2000
ISSN: 0034-0553
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJDEC2000
Provides basic, descriptive information about informational text experiences offered to children in 20 first-grade classrooms selected from very low and very high socio-economic-status school districts. Finds a scarcity of informational texts in these classroom print environments (particularly the low socio-economic status schools)--there were relatively few informational texts included in classroom libraries and on classroom walls and other surfaces. (SC)
Descriptors: Class Activities; *Classroom Design; *Classroom Environment; Classroom Research; *Educational Strategies; Grade 1; Library
Collections; Primary Education; Social Differences
Identifiers: *Information Books
