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Direct linkStadler, Marie A.; Ward, Gay Cuming – Reading Horizons, 2010
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of props on children's narrative retells. Forty-two children in two comparable K/1 classrooms heard and practiced the same stories over eight weeks. This study found that the props had a positive effect on the children's use of descriptive language, but there was no effect on the number…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
Smith, Glenn Gordon; Gerretson, Helen; Olkun, Sinan; Joutsenlahti, Jorma – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2010
This study investigated whether infusing "causal" story elements into mathematical word problems improves student performance. In one experiment in the USA and a second in USA, Finland and Turkey, undergraduate elementary education majors worked word problems in three formats: 1) standard (minimal verbiage), 2) potential causation…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics)
