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Generating Knowledge of Academic Language among Urban Middle School Students
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Snow, Catherine E.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; White, Claire – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
A quasi-experimental study of a novel, cross-content area vocabulary intervention program called "Word Generation" showed significantly greater growth among 6th- to 8th-grade students in schools implementing the program than in comparison schools, on a curriculum-specific test. Furthermore, the language-minority students in the…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Middle School Students, Vocabulary, Intervention