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Building Student Understanding of the Cause of Day and Night: A Study of Literacy- and Spatial Thinking-Integrated Activities Compared to a Commercial Curriculum
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Rule, Audrey C.; Webb, Angela Naomi – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
The cause of day and night is a difficult concept to master without concrete foundational skills of understanding shadows, rotation, changing point of view, and relative positions of objects in the sky. This pretest-posttest experimental-control group study examined student learning in a science-literacy-spatial skills integrated unit with…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Integrated Activities, Literacy, Spatial Ability
Primary Grade Students Engage in Creative Word Play through Traditional and Hands-On Methods
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Webb, Angela Naomi; Rule, Audrey C.; Cavanaugh, Adrianna D.; Munson, Angel – Education 3-13, 2014
Word play is an important skill allowing product names, show titles, jokes, poetry and other writings or orations to be interesting, entertaining and well-remembered. This pretest--posttest counterbalanced study compared two instructional approaches for teaching second and third grade students (n = 71) word play skills. Students at a public…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Pretests Posttests, Vowels, Rhyme