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Hemmer, Ingrid; Hemmer, Michael; Neidhardt, Eva; Obermaier, Gabriele; Uphues, Rainer; Wrenger, Katja – Education 3-13, 2015
This study investigates the capacity of children to develop map-based skills in spatial orientation in an urban environment unknown to them. In this quantitative study, a total of 328 pupils of grades 3-5 had to achieve specific skills with regard to map-based skills in spatial orientation (such as turning-off skills, transformation from map to…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Early Experience, Spatial Ability, Urban Environment
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Taub, Gordon E.; Szente, Judit – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) on the reading fluency (RF) of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. The study included 86 participants attending 1st through 4th grade within an inner-city charter school located in a high-poverty, urban…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Phonological Awareness
DeRose, John J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the types of instructors who teach local history, factors affecting their instruction in the community's past, and instructional practices employed to educate students about a locality's history. It examined teachers' implementation of items from "The Making of Milwaukee" (MOM) project which included a book, DVD…
Descriptors: Local History, Figurative Language, Interests, Urban Environment
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Lake, Vickie E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
This qualitative study that allowed children to be the dominant voice examined children's stories of hope. Twenty-nine kindergarten children through to third graders were interviewed using familiar school items: story board, pictures, puppets, and so on. One elementary school, located in a large southwestern metropolitan city, was selected for…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3