NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Teachers1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Daibao Guo; Huijing Wen; April Silimperi; Sadi Harp – Reading Psychology, 2024
Using a verbal protocol, this study investigated how 38 second-grade students identify, describe, and interpret five types of commonly used visual graphics in science texts (i.e., cut-away diagrams, maps, captioned photographs, flow diagrams, and hybrids). Additionally, we explored the challenges students encountered when interpreting these…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Prior, Lori Ann; Willson, Angeli; Martinez, Miriam – Reading Teacher, 2012
The literary element of character is critical to literary meaning-making, and in picturebooks images provide information important to understanding characters. This manuscript shares results of an investigation that explored the kinds of pictorial information young children use to gain insights into the characters and provide practical ways…
Descriptors: Literacy, Visual Literacy, Personality, Literary Devices
H. Lee Swanson; Catherine M. Lussier; Michael J. Orosco – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
This study investigated the role of strategy instruction and working memory capacity (WMC) on word problem solving accuracy in children with (n = 100) and without (n = 92) math difficulties (MD). Within classrooms, children in Grades 2 and 3 were randomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions: verbal-only strategies (e.g., underlining…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies, Short Term Memory, Problem Solving
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Byrne, Brian; Wadsworth, Sally; Boehme, Kristi; Talk, Andrew C.; Coventry, William L.; Olson, Richard K.; Samuelsson, Stefan; Corley, Robin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2013
The genetic factor structure of a range of learning measures was explored in twin children, recruited in preschool and followed to Grade 2 ("N"?=?2,084). Measures of orthographic learning and word reading were included in the analyses to determine how these patterned with the learning processes. An exploratory factor analysis of the…
Descriptors: Genetics, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Moll, Kristina; Landerl, Karin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
In two studies dissociations between reading and spelling skills were examined. Study 1 reports equally high prevalence rates for isolated deficits in reading (7%) or spelling (6%) in a representative sample (N = 2,029) of German-speaking elementary school children. In Study 2, children with isolated deficits were presented with the same words to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Spelling, Economically Disadvantaged, Phonological Awareness
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ding, Yi; Richman, Lynn C.; Yang, Ling-yan; Guo, Jian-peng – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The purpose of this study was to evaluate rapid automatized naming skills (RAN) and immediate memory processes in 243 Chinese Mandarin-speaking elementary readers (ranging from Grade 1 to Grade 5). For RAN subtests, the mean naming time decreased monotonically with grade level in good and average readers, and a similar trajectory was found in poor…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech Communication, Reading Difficulties, Disabilities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Rapp, Whitney H. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2009
Mathematics concepts are most often taught using auditory, sequential instructional methods. Not only are these methods ineffective when used with visual-spatial learners, they may be detrimental to both academic and emotional progress. Ways in which visual-spatial learners process information are explained. One child's story is presented,…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Teaching Methods, Visual Learning, Learning Strategies