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Heidi Anne E. Mesmer – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Many initiatives have emphasized the importance of challenging students in text using readability formulas. Almost all formulas employ mean word frequency yet long-standing issues abound. Researchers question using a singular mean with a skewed variable like frequency. They also question the degree to which frequency pinpoints complex words,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Word Frequency, Difficulty Level, Elementary Schools
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Tânia Fernandes; Sofia Velasco; Isabel Leite – Developmental Science, 2024
Discrimination of reversible mirrored letters (e.g., d and b) poses a challenge when learning to read as it requires overcoming "mirror invariance," an evolutionary-old perceptual tendency of processing mirror images as equivalent. The present study investigated "when," in reading development, mirror-image discrimination…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Castañeda-Garza, Gerardo; Valerio-Ureña, Gabriel – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Recognizing the relevance of energy in our lives is essential for ensuring a sustainable future. The lessons offered by education systems could exert an impact throughout the lives of people. This study conducts a review of the content of elementary-level textbooks in Mexico to describe and analyze the scope of these materials and their depth from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Elementary Education, Energy
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Rakhi Banerjee; Kaye Stacey – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
The paper presents an analysis of elementary grade mathematics teaching in India focusing on mathematical reasoning. Mathematical reasoning is an important tool to make sense of mathematical ideas, which in turn makes mathematics more accessible to learners and promotes social equality. The paper analyzes 112 lessons from Grades 1 to 8 by 21…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
Duangmanee Ya-amphan; Sampan Thinwiangthong; Phailath Sythong – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2024
This comparative study analyzed the similarities and differences in the mathematical communication used by teachers and primary school students in Japanese, Lao, and Thai mathematics classrooms. It adopted a qualitative research design, and the targets were teachers and students in Grades 1-6 at a selected school in each of the three countries.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1
Sharon A. Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if and to what extent there is a correlation between paternal school involvement, and (school, cognitive/intellectual, and personal) involvement in their children's academic achievement of first through eighth-grade students in a private school. The theoretical foundation of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Parent School Relationship, Fathers, Private Schools
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GuoDong Li – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
Reading interest serves as an inherent driving force for children's reading. Current research shows that family cultural capital, school reading environment, and community reading culture all influence children's reading interests. According to the "family-school-community" collaborative education model, families, schools and communities…
Descriptors: Reading, Student Interests, Rural Areas, Children
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Samantha Cooper; Michael Hebert; J. Marc Goodrich; Sergio Leiva; Xin Lin; Peng Peng; J. Ron Nelson – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2024
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to assess the overall effects of automaticity training of fundamental literacy component skills (i.e., letter names/sounds, individual words) on reading fluency and comprehension. Another purpose was to assess if the effects of automaticity training varied for reading fluency and comprehension. We identified…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Literacy, Elementary Education, Grade 1
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Judith Kreuz; Martin Luginbühl – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
'Taking part' in conversations requires different activities from the interactants depending on the kind of conversation. This article investigates co-constructions in oral peer group discussions of elementary school children from grades 2 to 6 (7-12 years old). Although dissent is the starting point of argumentations, negotiating processes in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Speech
Angela J. Faulkner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative, causal-comparative research study investigated whether school configuration has an impact on the reading performance of sixth-grade students by comparing the End-of-Grade (EOG) reading assessment Grade Level Proficiency (GLP) scores of sixth-grade students in K-8 configured schools to sixth-grade students enrolled in 6-8 grade…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Rosalie Grant – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2024
Over a 6-year period, a sociolinguistic and sociocultural project was undertaken by Alaska Native expert educators and linguists (aka the Yup'ik Expert Group) from the Yup'ik community in the Lower Kuskokwim School District, Central Alaska. The native experts developed their own culturally sustainable, valid, and reliable Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Sustainability, Test Validity, Language Tests
Rachel Schechter; Maddie Lee Mason; Laura Janakiefski – Online Submission, 2024
This study examines the usage and effectiveness of Lexercise, a hybrid reading intervention program combining weekly literacy intervention with structured independent practice, in supporting reading skill development among struggling readers. Analysis of 198 students in grades 2-6 during the 2023-2024 school year revealed strong adherence to the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Sunaina Shenoy; Theresah Boateng; Allison Nannemann – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2024
This study compared students' performance on Istation, a computer-based progress-monitoring tool, and easyCBM, a paper-pencil progress-monitoring tool. Participants included 106 students in Grades K-6 from a rural school in New Mexico. Teachers in these grade levels administered both assessments three times during the school year. Results…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Rural Schools, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Rachael C. Rost-Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With large-scale wicked problems threatening our world, the integration of sustainability into teacher professional learning is systemically lacking in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to understand the impact of a multi-session, sustainability-related professional learning program on twelve PreKindergarten-8th grade educators…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Private Schools, Self Efficacy
Antoinette Duran – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how private school teachers perceive the value and overcome the challenges of contributing to students' daily physical activity who participate in K-6 Central California schools. It was not known how private school teachers perceive the value and overcome the challenges of…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Physical Activities, Elementary School Teachers
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