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Intervening in Early Written Literacy Development for Gifted Children in Grade 2: Insights from an Action Research Project
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Roessingh, Hetty; Bence, Michelle – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2017
This article reports on an action research project undertaken by a team of four Grade 2 teachers who work in a school for gifted learners. Focused on implementing a structured printing and spelling curriculum in addition to providing instructed support for planning, organizing, and vocabulary use for different genres of writing, both qualitative…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Action Research, Gifted, Research Projects
Increasing Communication in Geometry by Using a Personal Math Concept Chart
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Friedman, Rhonda; Kazerouni, Gety; Lax, Stacey; Weisdorf, Elli – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2011
The action research team developed a "Personal Math Concept Chart". This chart required students to describe the mathematical concepts that they were studying in the Geometry strand of Mathematics using their own images and words. In this study, students were encouraged to express their own understanding of geometric concepts in order to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Geometric Concepts, Teaching Methods, Geometry
Asking Good Questions: Promoting Greater Understanding of Mathematics through Purposeful Teacher and Student Questioning
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Di Teodoro, Susan; Donders, Sharon; Kemp-Davidson, Joy; Robertson, Peggy; Schuyler, Lori – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2011
This action research report follows the journey of four elementary school teachers as they learn to define and ask "deeper" or meaningful mathematical questions in their teachings. It chronicles the way that teaching through problem solving and developing criteria for questioning increased the percentage of "deeper" questions…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Connections: Combining Environmental Education and Artwork in the Primary Grades for Sustainability
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Day, Joanne – Online Submission, 2004
This action research study was designed to raise environmental awareness and improve the social responsibility and actions of students in Grades 2 and 3 at Montecito Elementary in Burnaby. Implemented was a strategy pairing environmental education lessons with artwork projects, to engage the students and improve their awareness of aquatic…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Art Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Grade 2
The Genesis of a Hybrid Writing Instruction Approach through Action Research
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Engemann, Alison J.; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Ontario Action Researcher, 2005
Lucie, a Grade Two classroom teacher, and Kate, a university professor, engaged in an action research study that linked a trait-based writing instruction approach with a genre-focused instruction approach. To capture the experience, fieldnote observations, interviews and samples of students' work were collected. Lucie recognized the need to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning
Encouraging Reflective and Critical Thinking during Silent Reading: An Action Research Project in a Grade 2/3 Classroom
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Webster, Jennifer A. – Ontario Action Researcher, 2004
In this action research project, undertaken in a Grade 2/3 classroom, I posed the question: How can I encourage the readers in my class to become reflective and critical thinkers as they read? My aim was to support students in becoming reflective about what they read as well as about the strategies they used while reading, and to support the…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Action Research, Reading Strategies, Grade 3