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Kearns, Devin M.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
The Common Core State Standards emphasize the need for U.S. students to read complex texts. As a result, the level of word complexity for primary-level texts is important, particularly the dimensions of and changes in complexity between first grade and the important third-grade high-stakes testing year. In this study, we addressed word complexity…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Differences, Grade 1, Grade 3
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Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar; Abdalla, Fauzia; Al-Sulaihim, Nailah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of preschool- and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children. It also explores the effects of story task complexity on the target microstructural features. Method: This study…
Descriptors: Arabic, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Monolingualism
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Barnes, Erica M.; Stephens, S. Joy – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This study examines four of the most commonly-used core mathematics curricula in the USA for evidence of support for research-based instructional strategies for mathematics vocabulary in first and second grade. Content analyses of the teachers' editions of two units for each grade level were analyzed per curriculum (n = 16). Statistically…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Mathematics Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics
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Susan B. Neuman; Katie Danielson – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study examines the complexities of enacting an explicit content-rich curriculum in a large urban school district. Thirty-six teachers from 12 elementary schools, preK through Grade 1 were recruited to teach the "World of Words," an integrated science and literacy supplementary curriculum. Prior to the start of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Integrated Curriculum, Content Area Reading, Elementary School Science
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Witte, Priscilla G. – Reading Teacher, 2016
This formative and design study examined how the Complex Text Analysis (CTA) instructional approach provided support for first-grade students to increase their comprehension of texts of increasing complexity. The students in the diverse class participated in weekly lessons during which fictional texts were read aloud and analyzed in terms of key…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Grade 1, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Leung, Cynthia B.; Silverman, Rebecca; Nandakumar, Ratna; Qian, Xiaoyu; Hines, Sara – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
The present study investigated preschoolers' knowledge of vocabulary that appears in first grade basal readers by applying Rasch modeling to data from a researcher-developed receptive picture vocabulary assessment administered to 238 children. Levels of word difficulty for dual language learners (DLLs) and monolingual English learners (MELs) were…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Monolingualism, Glossaries, Vocabulary Development