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Carmen Sherry Brown – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2023
Young children learn best through hands-on, authentic experiences that motivates, stimulates and supports their growth in all areas of development. This includes the skills necessary to enhance their literacy and language acquisition, physical and cognitive development in addition to their social-emotional development and approaches to learning.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Tapia, Marta Tulcán; Daza, Larisa Valencia; Cruz, Alexandra Hernández – Childhood Education, 2023
Addressing learning poverty requires a multi-faceted approach, including investments in early childhood education, improving the quality of teaching, providing access to learning resources, and addressing social and economic barriers to education. Since 2017, Fundación Carvajal has implemented "Aula Global" (Global Classroom), a diverse,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Intervention, Elementary School Students
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Ferrington, Bruce – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2018
Making patterning the basis of mathematics investigations for an entire year produced unexpected results for Bruce Ferrington. A Year 2 class used the spatial tasks from the Pattern and Structure Mathematics Awareness Program (PASMAP) with a specific emphasis on patterning, to develop their thinking mathematically skills. The result was students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Murphy, Kristin M.; Cook, Amy L.; Fallon, Lindsay M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Although social-emotional learning is associated with long-term success in school and careers, it is often a missing link in U.S. public education. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the need for social-emotional supports for children. In this time of crisis, educators have also sought new ways to make connections and reimagined how students…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Computer Simulation, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Smith, Emma – Primary Science, 2021
Front Street Primary School, situated near Gateshead in the north east of England, has been teaching its children about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. These goals have the power to create a better world by 2030, aiming to end poverty, fight inequality and address the urgent challenge of climate change. The year 2…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Sustainable Development, Grade 2, Foreign Countries
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
This review focuses on interventions or practices designed to help children in kindergarten through third grade learn to develop skills that are considered foundational to developing solid reading abilities. The following research question guides this review: "Which instructional practices improve beginning readers' foundational reading…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Serriere, Stephanie; McGarry, Lori; Fuentes, David; Mitra, Dana – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
At its best, service learning involves students making meaningful connections to their own community and feeling empowered by the experience. Unfortunately, in the elementary years, student service-learning is often a one-shot effort in which adults make decisions for children, preventing them from truly having a hand in the project's direction…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Homeless People, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Witzel, Bradley S.; Ferguson, Christine J.; Mink, Deborah V. – Young Children, 2012
Number sense development in young children has been linked to future math achievement in a manner similar to the way phonological awareness (i.e., children's awareness and use of sounds within a language to make meaning) has been linked to reading achievement (e.g., Kosanovich, Weinstein, & Goldman 2009). That is, they may be indicators of future…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Mathematics Skills, Phonological Awareness, Skill Development
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Carlisle, Peggy – Science and Children, 2012
In this article, the author describes a series of lessons that focuses on observation and documentation of organisms and that is appropriate for the second through fourth grades. By giving students the necessary initial support, they will have the ability to observe details and the skills and confidence to make realistic scientific drawings and…
Descriptors: Investigations, Learning Activities, Program Descriptions, Science Process Skills
Washington State Department of Early Learning, 2012
The Department of Early Learning (DEL), in partnership with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and Thrive Washington, has published the Early Learning and Development Guidelines (guidelines) for children from birth through third grade. The guidelines replace the Early Learning and Development Benchmarks, which were first…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Early Intervention, State Standards
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Mindess, Mary; Chen, Min-hua; Brenner, Ronda – Young Children, 2008
The authors advocate that every primary grade program needs a carefully planned social-emotional component. All children--those who enter first or second grade with an ability to control their emotions and make friends and those for whom these skills are more difficult--benefit from intentional teaching in this area. Some school systems adopt a…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Prevention, Grade 2, Mental Health
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Ableser, Judith – Young Children, 2008
How can teachers balance early curricular demands and expectations while addressing the social and emotional needs of young children during times of crisis and stress? The author suggests that teachers need to redirect and engage children in learning activities that give them a feeling of control, competence, and empowerment in their own lives and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Stress Management
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Hjelm, Beth; Stork, Steve – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2006
In this second part of a two-part series, the authors share informative teaching tips that ensure students will have ample opportunity to learn specific skills and attitudes relative to cooperation. This article describes the purpose of cooperative tasks in the curriculum. Considerations for implementing cooperative tasks in physical education are…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Cooperation, Elementary Education
MacDonald, Kate – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2006
In this article, the author describes a way of motivating learners to solve and reflect upon mathematical problems. The author wanted to find ways to help the Y6 class with their KS2 SATs, but more importantly she wanted to develop their interest and skills in solving mathematical challenges. She spent some time working on the idea of a "…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Grade 6, Skill Development, Mathematics Skills
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Mansell, Jubilea; Evans, Mary Ann; Hamilton-Hulak, Laura – Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
This longitudinal study across the primary grades examined whether there were patterns in feedback strategies parents provided to children's miscues during shared book reading, and whether parents changed their use of those strategies over time as their children's reading skills increased. Parents of normally developing beginning readers were…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Vocabulary Development, Young Children, Reading Skills