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August, Diane; Artzi, Lauren; Barr, Christopher – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
The Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards require students to understand and produce academic language that appears in informational text. Vocabulary is a critical domain of academic language, but English language learners (ELLs) come to the English Language Arts classroom with more limited English vocabulary than…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Arts, English, Common Core State Standards
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San Francisco, Andrea Rolla; Carlo, Maria; August, Diane; Snow, Catherine E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
This study explores influences on bilingual children's phonological awareness (PA) performance in English, examining the role of language of instruction and vocabulary. English monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual kindergartners and first graders receiving either English or Spanish literacy instruction were assessed in English PA and in…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Bilingualism, Phonological Awareness
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August, Diane; Francis, David J.; Hsu, Han-Ya Annie; Snow, Catherine E. – Elementary School Journal, 2006
A new measure of reading comprehension, the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), designed to reflect central comprehension processes while minimizing decoding and language demands, was pilot tested. We conducted three pilot studies to assess the DARC's feasibility, reliability, comparability across Spanish and English,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingual Students, Evaluation Methods, Spanish Speaking