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HyeJin Hwang; Sonia Q. Cabell; Rachel E. Joyner – Grantee Submission, 2023
This systematic review examined whether building content knowledge in science and/or social studies topics during English Language Arts (ELA) instruction enhances vocabulary and comprehension. It also described how ELA instruction has been leveraged to build content knowledge in the elementary years. A systematic search of the extant literature…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Elementary Education, Social Studies, Vocabulary
Elizabeth A. Stevens; Christy S. Murray; Nancy Scammacca; Diane Haager; Sharon Vaughn – Grantee Submission, 2022
Many middle school students perform below grade-level standards in reading (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019), and recent observation studies demonstrate middle school teachers' limited use of reading comprehension practices within content area instruction (e.g., science and social studies; Greenleaf & Valencia, 2017). In this…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Faculty Development, Social Studies
Christy S. Murray; Elizabeth A. Stevens; Sharon Vaughn – Grantee Submission, 2021
Literacy standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010) and best practices from Institute of Education Sciences practice guides (e.g., Baker et al., 2014; Kamil et al., 2008) encourage content-area teachers to use text reading to improve vocabulary and comprehension for…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, English Instruction, Language Arts, Science Instruction
Swanson, Elizabeth; Wanzek, Jeanne; McCulley, Lisa; Stillman-Spisak, Stephanie; Vaughn, Sharon; Simmons, Deborah; Fogarty, Melissa; Hairrell, Angela – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study reports vocabulary and reading comprehension instructional practices implemented in middle and high school social studies and language arts classrooms. It also describes text reading practices. We conducted 137 observations of 11 social studies and 9 language arts teachers over the course of 1 academic year. We observed instructional…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Social Studies, Language Arts