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O'Brien, Lisa; Leighton, Christine; Giunco, Kierstin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
This mixed methods study extends findings from a prior study exploring use of increasingly-complex, expository text situated within a five-week interdisciplinary intervention in which first-grade children attending a Sheltered-English (SEI) immersion classroom advanced their conceptual knowledge and academic language approximating levels near or…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Intervention
Mulligan, Joanne; English, Lyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This paper describes students' developing meta-representational competence, drawn from the second phase of a longitudinal study, "Transforming Children's Mathematical and Scientific Development." A group of 21 highly able Grade 1 students was engaged in mathematics/science investigations as part of a data modelling program. A pedagogical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Grade 1
Mulligan, Joanne; Hodge, Kerry; Mitchelmore, Mike; English, Lyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
A 3-year longitudinal study "Transforming Children's Mathematical and Scientific Development" integrates, through data modelling, a pedagogical approach focused on mathematical patterns and structural relationships with learning in science. As part of this study, a purposive sample of 21 highly able Grade 1 students was engaged in an…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction