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Lindsey Peters-Sanders; Houston Sanders; Howard Goldstein; Kandethody Ramachandran – Grantee Submission, 2023
Purpose: Identifying appropriate targets for vocabulary instruction and determining the optimal sequence for instruction continue to be a challenge. The purpose of this study is to investigate how previously studied lexical characteristics collectively influence children's word learning. Method: A secondary data analysis was conducted using the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development
Lindsey Peters-Sanders; Houston Sanders; Howard Goldstein; Kandethody Ramachandran – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Identifying appropriate targets for vocabulary instruction and determining the optimal sequence for instruction continue to be a challenge. The purpose of this study is to investigate how previously studied lexical characteristics collectively influence children's word learning. Method: A secondary data analysis was conducted using the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Grade 1, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Cervetti, Gina N.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Pearson, P. David; McClung, Nicola A. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2015
This study examines, within the domain of science, the characteristics of words that predict word knowledge and word learning. The authors identified a set of word characteristics--length, part of speech, polysemy, frequency, morphological frequency, domain specificity, and concreteness--that, based on earlier research, were prime candidates to…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level, Learning Processes