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Direct linkO'Connor, Rollanda E.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Roberts, Sarana; Chan, Olivia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2017
Helping struggling readers to learn history content in middle school can be difficult due to heavy reading demands. In this study, researchers taught poor readers with and without disabilities in eighth grade to generate main idea statements; create, compare, and contrast paragraphs; and identify cause and effect relations, along with relevant…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Disabilities
O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Roberts, Sarana; Chan, Olivia – Grantee Submission, 2017
Helping struggling readers to learn history content in middle school can be difficult due to heavy reading demands. In this study, researchers taught poor readers with and without disabilities in 8th grade to generate main idea statements, create compare and contrast paragraphs, and identify cause and effect relationships, along with relevant…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Disabilities
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Communities of Practice, Preschool Teachers
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
Children entering kindergarten and grade 1 vary greatly in their emergent literacy skills. Because preschool teachers can help set the foundation of literacy skills related to school readiness, one way to address those gaps is to build teachers' capacity to apply evidence-based strategies in their language and literacy instruction.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Communities of Practice, School Readiness
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
Méndez, Lucia I.; Crais, Elizabeth R.; Castro, Dina C.; Kainz, Kristen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This study examined the role of the language of vocabulary instruction in promoting English vocabulary in preschool Latino dual language learners (DLLs). The authors compared the effectiveness of delivering a single evidence-informed vocabulary approach using English as the language of vocabulary instruction (English culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spanish Speaking, Bilingual Students, English Language Learners
Kosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Communities of Practice
Swanson, Lauren Honeycutt; Bianchini, Julie A.; Lee, Jin Sook – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This study documents how an urban high school science teacher engaged her English Language Learners (ELLs) in the discourse-intensive science and engineering practices of (1) arguing from evidence and (2) obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. The teacher taught an introductory integrated science course to classes with a large…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Science Education, Science Teachers
Rowe, Deborah; Fain, Jeanne Gilliam – Language Arts, 2013
The Family Backpack Project provided 249 low-income, prekindergarten children and their families with opportunities to read and listen to audio recordings of 3 sets of books in their homes. Families received English or dual-language texts (English plus Spanish, Arabic, Kurdish, or Somali) matched to their home languages. Children and their…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Low Income Groups, Preschool Children, Family Programs
