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Alexander, Karl L.; Entwisle, Doris R.; Olson, Linda Steffel – American Sociological Review, 2007
Prior research has demonstrated that summer learning rooted in family and community influences widens the achievement gap across social lines, while schooling offsets those family and community influences. In this article, we examine the long-term educational consequences of summer learning differences by family socioeconomic level. Using data…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Family Environment, Context Effect, Socioeconomic Status
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Cahill, Susan M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2006
This article presents a case description of collaboration between an occupational therapist and a general education teacher to develop an effective classroom management system. The classroom management system described here was based on the Alert Program for Self-regulation: How Does Your Engine Run? In addition, the case description provides a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Occupational Therapy, Classroom Environment
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Varol, Filiz; Farran, Dale C. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2006
The purpose of this critical analysis was to investigate the young children's sense of numerical magnitudes and the important attributes of classrooms where children in kindergarten and first grade are exposed to mathematics. This study aimed to offer guidelines that will assist teachers as they teach mathematics to children between the ages of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Criticism, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Stipek, Deborah; Byler, Patricia – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004
This study assesses a new measure of early childhood classroom practice in 127 kindergarten- and first-grade classrooms. The measure was designed to be appropriate for classrooms serving children from the age of 4-7 years. It assesses the nature and quality of instruction as well as the social climate and management of the classroom. Two separate…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Environment, Observation, Constructivism (Learning)
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Pianta, Robert C.; Belsky, Jay; Vandergrift, Nathan; Houts, Renate; Morrison, Fred J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
This nonexperimental, longitudinal field study examines the extent to which variation in observed classroom supports (quality of emotional and instructional interactions and amount of exposure to literacy and math activities) predicts trajectories of achievement in reading and math from 54 months to fifth grade. Growth mixture modeling detected…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students, Longitudinal Studies, Literacy
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Croom, Loren; Davis, Barbara H. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2006
Numerous classroom-based research projects have examined the important role social skills play in an elementary classroom (Browning, Davis, and Resta 2000; Burns 2003; Palmer and Wehmeyer 2003; Stone 2001). As Stone (2001, 18) suggested, "Teachers have an enormous influence on children's behavior by speaking directly and honestly to them,…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Student Behavior, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Allor, Jill H.; Cheek, Earl H., Jr.; Smith, Patricia M.; Schorzman, Emma M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2006
This study is an investigation of the perspectives of college students who served as tutors for struggling first-grade readers. Two research questions drove the study: What did the tutors perceive as strengths and weaknesses of the tutoring program? and What possible solutions did they have for addressing any concerns? Quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Tutors, Tutoring, College Students, Questionnaires
Broderick, Patricia; Raymond, Allen – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
In Hilliard, OH, administrators, teachers, kids and parents make a school a "community." Visualize, if you will, a symphony orchestra. The violins play as one, led by the concertmaster in the first violin section, who is first among equals. As the music builds, the cellos add their glorious tone while the woodwinds may introduce the theme.…
Descriptors: Music, Educational Environment, Teamwork, Cooperative Planning
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Downer, Jason T.; Pianta, Robert C. – School Psychology Review, 2006
Family and child care experiences from birth to 54 months, achievement and social competence at entry to school, maternal sensitivity at first grade, and qualities of first-grade classrooms were used to predict academic and cognitive functioning at first grade for 832 children enrolled in the National Institute of Child Health and Human…
Descriptors: Family Income, Reading Achievement, Grade 1, Early Experience
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Lotherington, Heather; Chow, Sandra – Reading Teacher, 2006
At a multicultural elementary school in Toronto, Canada, students in grades 1 and 2 digitally rewrote the traditional children's story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The traditional tale was transformed into individualized narratives, with new characters, setting, and plot twists, and the students moved from reading the original story…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Story Telling, Childrens Literature, Multicultural Education
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Bub, Kristen L. – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
Social and behavioral problems can interfere with a child's acquisition of age-appropriate skills, which may lead to antisocial behavior in adolescence and adulthood. Thus, determining how best to support positive skills during early childhood is critical. Using data from the first three phases of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Antisocial Behavior, Effect Size, Grade 3
Whyte, Donna – Crystal Springs Books, 2004
Within a simple meeting framework, experienced teacher and presenter Donna Whyte shares hundreds of ideas she's used in her own classroom to: (1) meet state standards; (2) Keep kids focused and engaged; (3) Encourage every child to participate; and (4) Assess learning every day for every child. After an introduction, this book is divided into…
Descriptors: State Standards, Classroom Environment, Academic Standards, Educational Strategies
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Keddie, Amanda – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
This paper describes the research approach of a case study ethnography. The study sought to explore the peer group understandings of five male friends aged between six and eight years. In exploring the social dynamics of peer culture, and in particular how these dynamics interacted to define, regulate and maintain particular understandings of…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Young Children, Males, Masculinity
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Yeo, Lay See; Clarke, Christine – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
This paper investigates the concept of adjustment to school for a group of primary one (first grade) pupils in Singapore. Pupils rated by their teachers as being well adjusted obtained significantly higher grades at the end of the school year, did not require additional learning support, and exhibited better social skills compared to children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Student Adjustment, Grades (Scholastic)
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Reese, Leslie; Goldenberg, Claude; Saunders, William – Elementary School Journal, 2006
This study examined the reading performance on the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery--Revised (WLPB-R), in Spanish and English, of 183 Spanish-speaking students in kindergarten through grade 2 in 3 schools with 4 instructional programs for English learners: structured English immersion, transitional bilingual, developmental bilingual, and dual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 2, Kindergarten, Spanish Speaking
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