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Martinez-Alvarez, Patricia; Bannan, Brenda; Peters-Burton, Erin E. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2012
This research work examined the impact of a science-reading instructional sequence ("InSciRead") on fourth-grade Spanish-English dual language learners' ability to monitor their comprehension of content-related (erosion, deposition, and transportation) texts. We used a quantitative measure of students' ability to detect incongruities in a related…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Libresco, Andrea S. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
In this article, the author presents a case study of three fourth grade teachers in New York, a state that administers an elementary social studies test, constructed by teachers, that relies on the use of documents in the majority of its questions. Throughout the 2002-2003 school year, the three teachers were observed during every unit of social…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Cognitive Processes, Faculty Development, Social Studies