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Fyfe, Emily R.; McNeil, Nicole M.; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany – Child Development, 2015
The labels used to describe patterns and relations can influence children's relational reasoning. In this study, 62 preschoolers (M[subscript age] = 4.4 years) solved and described eight pattern abstraction problems (i.e., recreated the relation in a model pattern using novel materials). Some children were exposed to concrete labels (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Classification
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Neuman, Susan B.; Newman, Ellen H.; Dwyer, Julie – Reading Research Quarterly, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that helping preschoolers learn words through categorization may enhance their ability to retain words and their conceptual properties, acting as a bootstrap for self-learning. We examined this hypothesis by investigating the effects of the World of Words instructional program, a supplemental…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Vocabulary Development, Intervention