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Zucker, Tricia A.; Cabell, Sonia Q.; Pico, Danielle L. – Reading Teacher, 2021
Developing young children's vocabulary is essential for later reading success; thus, early childhood classrooms require a comprehensive vocabulary approach that teaches academic vocabulary. Yet even providing young children with child-friendly definitions of sophisticated words can be a challenge. First, the authors outline the components of a…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Direct Instruction
Zucker, Tricia A.; Cabell, Sonia Q.; Pico, Danielle L. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Developing young children's vocabulary is essential for later reading success; thus, early childhood classrooms require a comprehensive vocabulary approach that teaches academic vocabulary. Yet even providing young children with child-friendly definitions of sophisticated words can be a challenge. First, the authors outline the components of a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Early Childhood Education, Definitions, Academic Language
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Park, Yujeong; Brownell, Mary T.; Bettini, Elizabeth F.; Benedict, Amber E. – Exceptionality, 2019
The purpose of this study was to review and analyze effective classroom reading practices for early graders, using information gathered from the existing content-general and content-specific observation protocols measuring teachers' classroom reading practices. Dimensions and constructs from 28 observation studies were synthesized to identify…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Valley, Vanessa – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teaching daily math word problems in a 3-6th grade ELL classroom on math vocabulary use and math word problem and place value comprehension. This study sought to answer the following research question: "How does direct instruction of mathematical operation keywords through teaching…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, English Language Learners, Vocabulary Development
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Gámez, Perla B.; Lesaux, Nonie K. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined teachers' language use across the school year in 6th grade urban middle-school classrooms (n = 24) and investigated the influence of this classroom-based linguistic input on the reading comprehension skills of the students (n = 851; 599 language minority learners and 252 English-only) in the participating classrooms. Analysis…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Grade 6, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students