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Ottley, Jennifer R.; Rahn, Naomi L.; Coogle, Christan Grygas; Ferron, John M.; Storie, Sloan M. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Naturalistic instruction is the intentional use of strategies embedded within typical activities of the environment to create learning opportunities for children. We used multilevel modeling to analyze data from this single-case design study that focused on improving teachers' use of naturalistic language strategies and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Faculty Development, Generalization, Evidence Based Practice
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Rule, Audrey C. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2007
This guest editorial describes ways teachers can use guessing games about an unknown item in a "mystery box" to help children improve their abilities to listen to others, recall information, ask purposeful questions, classify items by class, make inferences, synthesize information, and draw conclusions. The author presents information…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Attention Span, Inferences
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Sophian, Catherine; And Others – Cognition and Instruction, 1995
Two experiments examined children's early judgments about numerical relations. Found that children as young as three years old are already adept at reasoning about relations between sets, independently of their ability to form numerical representations. Results support the existence of protoquantitative schemas, or ways of thinking about relations…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Generalization