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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
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Mariani, Melissa; Bayani, Jessica; Farmanara Kneidel, Lilia – Professional School Counseling, 2022
This project revealed the positive impact of the "SSS for SEL Success" program (SSS-SEL) on students' academics and perceived social/emotional adeptness. SSS-SEL, a new iteration of the "Student Success Skills" (SSS) program, teaches critical social/emotional concepts and strategies and was modified in this study to be…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Social Emotional Learning, COVID-19
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James S. Kim; Mary A. Burkhauser; Laura M. Mesite; Catherine A. Asher; Jackie Eunjung Relyea; Jill Fitzgerald; Jeff Elmore – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
This study investigated the effectiveness of the Model of Reading Engagement (MORE), a content literacy intervention, on first graders' science domain knowledge, reading engagement, and reading comprehension. The MORE intervention emphasizes the role of domain knowledge and reading engagement in supporting reading comprehension. MORE lessons…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learner Engagement, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
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Manyak, Patrick; Blachowicz, Camile L. Z.; Graves, Michael F. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
This article reports on a 3-year formative experiment involving the implementation and testing of a long-term, multifaceted vocabulary instruction program in fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms in three demographically distinct schools. The quantitative findings indicate that the students, across the 3 years of the project, showed accelerated…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Formative Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
James S. Kim; Mary A. Burkhauser; Laura Mesite; Catherine Asher; Jackie Eunyung Relyea; Jill Fitzgerald; Jeff Elmore – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study investigated the effectiveness of the Model of Reading Engagement (MORE), a content literacy intervention, on first graders' science domain knowledge, reading engagement, and reading comprehension. The MORE intervention emphasizes the role of domain knowledge and reading engagement in supporting reading comprehension. MORE lessons…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Reading Tests
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Evans, Walter; Harris, Paulette; Sethuraman, Sankara; Thiruvaiyaru, Dharma; Pendergraft, Elizabeth; Cliett, Karen; Cato, Valerie – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
An innovative DVD of classic nursery rhymes and stories empowered at-risk kindergarten children to control in the home when and how much they listen, promoting better listening, reading, and overall literacy comprehension skills. Coupled with modest teacher training, and limited use in the classroom, the DVD generated dramatic vocabulary growth in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Poverty, Family Environment, Reading Habits