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Shi, Qi; Watkinson, Jennifer – Professional School Counseling, 2019
Using an evidence-based framework in a mixed-method study, we examined the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) in a middle school in the eastern United States and identified strategic intervention approaches to enhance ELL students' sense of school belonging to promote academic success. We illustrate how describing a problem as part of an…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Middle School Students, Sense of Community, Academic Achievement
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Croce, Keri-Anne – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
This two and a half year study examines how non-native English-speaking Burmese refugee students from first to third grades made meaning of scientific informational texts. The study is framed by sociocultural theory and transactional theory. Primary data were drawn from 160 student retellings of scientific informational texts. Secondary data…
Descriptors: Refugees, Sociocultural Patterns, Elementary School Students, Science Education
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Gross, Susan M.; Pollock, Elizabeth Davenport; Braun, Bonnie – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: To assess social and familial environmental influences on fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption of fourth- and fifth-graders living in a culturally diverse, urban setting. Design: In 2006, students from 9 fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms from a public school in the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Region were recruited as part of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Nutrition, Student Participation