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Capin, Philip; Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Stewart, Alicia A.; Swanson, Elizabeth; Vaughn, Sharon – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Teaching vocabulary and reading comprehension during social studies instruction is critical for reading development and the acquisition of content knowledge. This study systematically investigated how elementary teachers integrate vocabulary and reading comprehension instruction during social studies teaching, as well as the extent to which this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction
Elizabeth Swanson; Alicia A. Stewart; Elizabeth A. Stevens; Nancy K. Scammacca; Philip Capin; Bethany H. Bhat; Greg Roberts; Sharon Vaughn – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study addressed the effects of Strategies for Teaching Reading, Information, and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE), a distributed professional development (PD) model designed to help teachers implement reading comprehension and vocabulary practices in fourth grade social studies classes. Schools (n = 81 schools, n = 235 teachers, n = 4,757…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Fidelity, Grade 4
Spielvogel, Joanna H.; Ehren, Barbara J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if a direct, explicit method of teaching vocabulary with the Vocabulary Scenario Technique -- General Education 16 Encounter (VSTGE16) protocol would yield gains in the vocabulary knowledge of fourth grade students in a general education classroom. Two research questions examined whether fourth…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Vignettes
Neta Shaby; Orit Ben-Zvi Assaraf – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
Narratives, or stories, are used every day by people as a way of making sense of and communicating events in the world. Narratives can be highly useful as a learning tool in science education. Though research on narrative-based pedagogy in science education and communication is very common, most of that research was done in formal settings. Our…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Science Education, Museums
Elizabeth Swanson; Alicia A. Stewart; Elizabeth A. Stevens; Nancy K. Scammacca; Philip Capin; Bethany H. Bhat; Greg Roberts; Sharon Vaughn – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
This study addressed the effects of Strategies for Teaching Reading, Information, and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE), a distributed professional development (PD) model designed to help teachers implement reading comprehension and vocabulary practices in fourth grade social studies classes. Schools (n = 81 schools, n = 235 teachers, n = 4,757…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Faculty Development, Reading Strategies
Capin, Philip; Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Stewart, Alicia A.; Swanson, Elizabeth; Vaughn, Sharon – Grantee Submission, 2020
Teaching vocabulary and reading comprehension during social studies instruction is critical for reading development and the acquisition of content knowledge. This study systematically investigated how elementary teachers integrate vocabulary and reading comprehension instruction during social studies teaching, as well as the extent to which this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction
Alonso-Cortés-Fradejas, M. Dolores; López-Aguado, Mercedes; Llamazares-Prieto, M. Teresa – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
The purpose of this study is to analyse how vocabulary depth develops in the early years of primary school and to ascertain the effect it has on the quality of the texts produced by the students. A total of 332 Spanish students from the first to fourth grades participated by doing a synonyms/antonyms task to evaluate their vocabulary depth, along…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Amanda A. Ault – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The achievement gap is ever growing in the United States educational system. Low socioeconomic students is one demographic group who is targeted for educators to evaluate teaching and learning. Academic vocabulary is a targeted piece of language that is integrated into all content areas in school that makes content comprehensible. Low…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, English Language Learners, Teaching Methods, Semantics
Petersen-Brown, Shawna; Lundberg, Ashlee R.; Ray, Jannine E.; Dela Paz, Iwalani N.; Riss, Carrington L.; Panahon, Carlos J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
Spaced practice, or the distribution of practice opportunities across time, is a well-known and effective practice for improving retention. However, spaced practice is not effectively implemented in schools, perhaps as a result of a lack of educationally relevant research in the area. We conducted an educationally relevant investigation of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Retention (Psychology)
Zhang, Jie; Lo, Meng-Ting; Lin, Tzu-Jung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study investigated how word and child characteristics affect children's ability to learn the meanings of novel words. Participants were fourth- and fifth-graders representing native English speakers (NE) and bilingual learners with fluent English proficiency (FEP) and designated English Learners (EL). Students were taught the meanings of a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Daugaard, Hanne Trebbien; Nielsen, Anne-Mette Veber; Juul, Holger – Language and Education, 2020
Research suggests that readers learn about word meanings from the various contexts of words in texts. Therefore, context clue instruction is often recommended as a way of boosting students' word learning skills. Ideally, such instruction should focus on context clue types that are common in authentic texts. We examined the prevalence of context…
Descriptors: Cues, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction
Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Moreno-Pérez, Francisco J.; Simpson, Ian C.; Valdés-Coronel, Marta; Saldaña, David – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Reading comprehension is a complex process influenced by many factors. However, the abilities that are known to influence reading comprehension may not contribute equally for children with different levels of oral language. Aims: Here we examined the relationship of two factors known to influence reading comprehension (morphology and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension
Ester Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Individuals with lower proficiency in a second language tend to produce more disfluent speech patterns in the second language. Speech disfluencies refer to interruptions in the forward flow of speech and are distinct from the colloquial use of "fluency," to characterize knowledge of a language. Prior research indicates that some speech…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Jackie E. Relyea; Dennis S. Davis; Corrie Dobis; Becky Huang; Courtney Samuelson – Grantee Submission, 2025
This study evaluated the feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention, designed to support Grades 3-5 multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs) in building content knowledge, language skills, and reading comprehension through inquiry-based small-group instruction. Feasibility was examined across…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
Brave, Kathryn Lavin; McMullen, Mary; Martin, Cecile – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
During a time when students are accessing instruction virtually because of COVID-19, reflecting on the sixth of the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP 6) is a vital step for educators to take. Although the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (NGA Center and CCSSO 2010) identifies SMP 6 as Attend to precision, associated expertise…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Standards, Mathematics Instruction