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Martin, Nicole M. – Reading Horizons, 2022
Educators' support when using informational text in kindergarten is foundational to children's comprehension and future learning. Prior research has not offered clear insight into their help when children experience difficulties during informational text comprehension instruction. The current study examined one kindergarten educator's support.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Reading Instruction
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Jenny Yang; Seokhee Cho – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2024
In this qualitative case study, we investigated the role of an advanced math curriculum with language scaffolding on the development of geometric and visual-spatial reasoning skills in young mathematically promising English learners (MPELs). Specifically, we examined the effects of providing MPELs with challenging and supportive math curriculum to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Academically Gifted, Curriculum Implementation, English Language Learners
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Kocabas, Sezai; Zhu, Yi; Liang, Yiheng; Bofferding, Laura – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Block building activities help develop students' spatial reasoning, but few studies focus on the development of block building skills beyond preschool. We worked with four kindergarten, four first grade, and four second grade students to learn more about their Lego block building. We compared students' accuracy, building strategies, and spatial…
Descriptors: Toys, Learning Activities, Accuracy, Grade 2
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Douglas, Velta; Purton, Fiona; Bascuñán, Daniela – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Indigenous perspectives and knowledges have been rendered "difficult" to teach and learn due to settler-colonial norms that are naturalized in Ontario's public K-12 education system. We explore how we as educators and teachers with diverse populations of students critically engage pedagogy and knowledge to take up Indigenous perspectives…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Intervention
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Yang, Xuexue – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
Despite the importance of assessment accommodations, little is known about its use in the context of classroom assessments. To provide guidance for teachers on how to best support their emergent bilinguals during classroom assessments, there may be ideas from large-scale assessments that can be used in the classrooms. This article, a targeted…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Measurement, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Hathorn, Conley; Dillon, Anna Marie – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
This paper is concerned with exploring the microsystem of teachers' experiences with education reform within the action research (AR) model for professional development (PD). Within the macrosystem of current major education reform in the UAE, it is timely to explore teachers' experiences of AR as PD to improve pedagogy. The process of engaging in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Keiyana Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Digital learning is a rising method of enhancing education for learners in the K-12 sector of learning. The growing approach to instruction has created a pathway for various backgrounds of learners to conveniently explore content from home. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine parent perspectives of K-12 digital learning…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Teaching Experience, Elementary Secondary Education
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Keiyana Wilson; Kathryn Washington; Kelly Brown; Quentin Bellard; Tilisa Thibodeaux – School Leadership Review, 2022
Digital learning is a rising method of enhancing education for learners in the K-12 sector of learning. The growing approach to instruction has created a pathway for various backgrounds of learners to conveniently explore content from home. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine parent perspectives of K-12 digital learning…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Teaching Experience, Kindergarten
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Lo, Jane-Jane; Cox, Dana C. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
The authors who are mathematics teacher educators, have found that classifying, composing, and transforming shapes (in particular, rotations and reflections) are areas of difficulty for adults as well as for children. However, these are also some of the most important geometric ideas. They are fundamental topics in the K-8 Geometry and Measurement…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Standards
Lambert, Richard G. – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2018
This report contains reliability and validity evidence for the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment system (KEA) using a statewide sample of kindergarten children. The KEA was designed as a formative, developmental, authentic, and criterion referenced classroom resource for teachers. As a formative assessment, the KEA focuses on the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, School Readiness, Kindergarten, Formative Evaluation
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Morales, Grace; Sensevy, Gérard; Forest, Dominique – Educational Action Research, 2017
In this article we focus on "cooperative engineering", in which teachers and researchers co-design didactic sequences. In the first part of the article, we present cooperative engineering by describing some of the main principles on which it is grounded. The second part is dedicated to a case study, which enables us to illustrate some…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Cooperative Learning, Cooperation, Engineering
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Wright, Tanya S.; Neuman, Susan B. – Elementary School Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which commonly used core reading curricular materials supported research-based pedagogical features for oral vocabulary instruction in kindergarten. A document analysis was completed for 12 weeks of instructional materials from the teacher's editions of the 4 most widely used curricula.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Core Curriculum, Kindergarten, Vocabulary Development
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Wright, Tanya S.; Neuman, Susan B. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine how oral vocabulary instruction was enacted in kindergarten. Four days (12 hours) of instruction were observed in 55 classrooms in a range of socio-economic status schools. All instruction was coded for evidence of vocabulary instruction for a total of 660 hours of observation. Results revealed that…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Vocabulary Development, Oral Language, Language Skills
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Brighton, Catherine M.; Moon, Tonya R.; Huang, Francis H. L. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2015
This study of advanced readers in Reading First (RF) classrooms was part of a larger evaluation of one state's RF implementation. The study's purposes were to (a) assess the longitudinal growth of advanced primary readers as compared with their non-advanced-reading peers over a 3-year timeframe and (b) determine the degree to which RF classrooms…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Grade 1, Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students
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Vasinda, Sheri, Ed.; Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2015
The theme for the 58th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Bridging Cultures Through Literacy. In the first section of the Yearbook, Parker Fawson's presidential address captures the unique nature of ALER and its role in his professional development, and then moved beyond to capture the changing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension, Common Core State Standards
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