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Douglas Malcolm Mosher – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Domain-specific vocabulary knowledge is an important precursor to overall knowledge acquisition, which is essential to reading and comprehending grade-level texts. There are a number of malleable factors within the classroom that can be shaped by teachers and policy makers, yet additional empirical evidence is needed to uncover and evaluate those…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Level, Transfer of Training, General Education
James S. Kim; Joshua B. Gilbert; Jackie E. Relyea; Patrick Rich; Ethan Scherer; Mary A. Burkhauser; Johanna N. Tvedt – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We investigated the effectiveness of a sustained and spiraled content literacy intervention that emphasizes building domain and topic knowledge schemas and vocabulary for elementary-grade students. The Model of Reading Engagement (MORE) intervention underscores thematic lessons that provide an intellectual structure for helping students connect…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Donovan, Andrea Marquardt; Alibali, Martha W. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
This research examined whether children's construals of mathematical manipulatives -- as toys or as tools for doing mathematics -- influenced their learning from a lesson with the manipulatives. Children (grades 2 and 3) were presented with a set of buckets and beanbags, and they were either given no information about the manipulatives (control)…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Toys, Play, Mathematics Instruction