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Editorial Projects in Education, 2024
Strong foundational reading skills empower students to succeed both within and beyond the classroom. This Spotlight will help readers identify how much time should be spent teaching foundational reading skills; review how reading aloud to students can be a critical tool for developing literacy; investigate how teachers can support older students…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Time on Task, Reading Aloud to Others
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Talita Fortunato-Tavares; Debora Befi-Lopes; John Orazem; Aparecido Soares – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) show a wide range of impairments, including poor pre-reading skills and decoding difficulties due to phonological deficits and such difficulties have significant repercussions on the acquisition of written language. However, evidence about reading processes and development is mainly available for…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Alton, Noel T. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Research was conducted with 10 low literate and 10 medium to high literate students at the University of Baltimore to understand how traditional literacy impacts search habits for new college freshman. Five low literate, non-student participants were included in the research as a control group for the two student populations. It was hypothesized…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Literacy, Technological Literacy, Search Strategies
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Antony-Newman, Marina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This paper examines literacy engagement of plurilingual students from bilingual programmes. The mixed-methods research was a formative home intervention with Grade 4-6 Extended French and French Immersion students during the summer. The students were reading for pleasure in L1, writing summaries and participating in weekly discussions, which…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Literacy, French, Immersion Programs
Carol McDonald Connor; Ashley Adams; Elham Zargar; Taffeta Wood; Belinda E. Hernandez; Deborah Lowe Vandell – Grantee Submission, 2020
In this feasibility study, we present a newly developed observational system, Optimizing Learning Opportunities for Students (OLOS). OLOS is designed to elucidate the learning opportunities afforded to individual children within early childhood classrooms and as they transition to formal schooling (kindergarten through third grade). OLOS records…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Primary Education, Time on Task
Lambert, Richard – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2022
Each game within the Ignite by Hatch™ gaming environment belongs to an overall developmental domain and skills-based subdomain and is intended to meet the developmental needs of children at specific skill levels. These skill levels (Beginning, Emerging, Intermediate, Accomplishing, and Proficient+) form an intended developmental pathway. Children…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Computer Games
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Buchanan, Rebecca; Davis, Lauren; Cury, Trisha – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2021
There are many factors influencing the learning environment in public school settings. As such, the recognition of developing a multidimensional approach incorporating a variety of "tools" for a teacher's toolbox can prove to be very effective. Research indicates that movement is one such tool that can increase the capacity for students…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Rural Schools, Brain
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Sánchez, Maite T.; Menken, Kate; Pappas, Liza N. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
Although U.S. schools that provide bilingual education typically must negotiate English-only policies and pressures to sustain their programming over time, little is known about what this entails at the individual school level. Our research examines in detail how the leaders of an elementary school in New York City with a Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Reid, Annie L.; Porter, Kathleen J.; You, Wen; Kirkpatrick, Brittany M.; Yuhas, Maryam; Vaught, Shannon S.; Zoellner, Jamie M. – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Many studies document associations between low health literacy (HL) and poor health behaviors and outcomes. Yet, HL is understudied among adolescents, particularly from underserved, rural communities. We targeted rural adolescents in this cross-sectional study and explored relationships between HL and (1) energy-balance-related health…
Descriptors: Health, Literacy, Correlation, Health Behavior
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Hunter, Jevon D.; Silvestri, Katarina N.; Ackerman, Madison L. – School-University Partnerships, 2018
This article shares the qualitative research findings of an emerging professional development schools partnership that investigated the way Twitter, as a type of digital literacy, mediated literature discussions of Lois Lowry's "The Giver" between urban high school students and master's degree literacy specialist candidates. The findings…
Descriptors: Social Media, Adolescent Literature, Novels, Urban Youth
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2018
The Rhode Island 2020 Vision for Education defines an ideal Rhode Island graduate to be "one who is well prepared for postsecondary education, work, and life. He or she can think critically and collaboratively and can act as a creative, self-motivated, culturally competent learner and citizen." The updated Secondary School Regulations,…
Descriptors: State Regulation, Secondary Schools, Academic Support Services, Intervention
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Safford, Kimberly – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
The research examined the impact on teachers of the grammar element of a new statutory test in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) in primary schools in England. The research aimed to evaluate the nature and the extent of changes to the teaching of grammar and to wider literacy teaching since the introduction of the test in 2013. The research…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grammar, Language Tests, Interviews
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Georgiou, George K.; Hirvonen, Riikka; Manolitsis, George; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Background: Task avoidance is a significant predictor of literacy skills. However, it remains unclear whether the relation between the two is reciprocal and whether it is affected by the type of literacy outcome, who is rating children's task avoidance, and the children's gender. Aim: The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Spelling
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Litman, Cindy; Marple, Stacy; Greenleaf, Cynthia; Charney-Sirott, Irisa; Bolz, Michael J.; Richardson, Lisa K.; Hall, Allison H.; George, MariAnne; Goldman, Susan R. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
This study presents a descriptive analysis of 71 videotaped lessons taught by 34 highly regarded secondary English language arts, history, and science teachers, collected to inform an intervention focused on evidence-based argumentation from multiple text sources. Studying the practices of highly regarded teachers is valuable for identifying…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, Science Teachers
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Carnett, Amarie; Raulston, Tracy; Lang, Russell; Tostanoski, Amy; Lee, Allyson; Sigafoos, Jeff; Machalicek, Wendy – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2014
We compared the effects of a token economy intervention that either did or did not include the perseverative interests of a 7-year-old boy with autism. An alternating treatment design revealed that the perseverative interest-based tokens were more effective at decreasing challenging behavior and increasing on-task behavior than tokens absent the…
Descriptors: Token Economy, Intervention, Males, Young Children
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