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Demonstrating Understanding, a Whole Body Experience? Can Year One Children Show Their Science Understanding through the Use of Gestures?
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Davis, Anthony – Education 3-13, 2016
This research project uses the methods of Crowder and Callinan and Sharp to assess year one children's (age 5-6) personal understanding of scientific concepts. This research project uses video recording as a primary resource of data collection within a case study approach using a participant observer method. Analysis supports the work of Crowder…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Young Children, Grade 1, Scientific Concepts
The Relations between Lower and Higher Level Comprehension Skills and Their Role in Prediction of Early Reading Comprehension
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Silva, Macarena; Cain, Kate – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study of 4- to 6-year-olds had 2 aims: first, to determine how lower level comprehension skills (receptive vocabulary and grammar) and verbal memory support early higher level comprehension skills (inference and literal story comprehension), and second, to establish the predictive power of these skills on subsequent reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Grammar