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Read Alouds Enhanced with Tier 2 Instruction: Closing the Vocabulary and Comprehension Gap in First Grade
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Baker, Scott; Fien, Hank; Park, Yonghan; Haria, Priti; Santoro, Lana; Chard, David; Otterstedt, Janet; Williams, Susanna – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of tier 2 instruction on the comprehension and vocabulary of first grade students identified with low language and vocabulary skills. Specifically, the authors conducted a pilot study within the context of federally funded efficacy research to examine whether students participating in…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development, Grade 1
The Effects of Learning Confusable Words on Subsequent Learning of High or Low Imagery Words.
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Terwilliger, Paul N.; Kolker, Brenda S. – Reading World, 1982
Concludes that when children learned confusable words, their subsequent learning of words was at a faster rate than those children who learned nonconfusable words first, and that high imagery words were learned more quickly than low imagery ones. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Primary Education, Reading Research
A Comparative Study of Vocabulary Diversity: The Speaking Vocabularies of First-Grade Children, The Vocabularies of Selected First-Grade Primers, and The Vocabularies of Selected First-Grade Trade Books.
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Moe, Alden J. – 1974
Vocabulary diversity is a measure either of the language spoken within a fixed time period or of the total utterances, sentences, or words. To measure children's language development as revealed by the diversity of their spoken expression, a comparison was made of the vocabulary of 15 first-grade children of average ability, of first-grade primers…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Grade 1
Vocabulary Retention of Lower-Class Students in Language Experience and in Basal Text Approaches to the Teaching of Reading.
McC. Gallagher, Jo Anne – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether lower-class students would exhibit greater retention of reading vocabulary with a language experience approach to reading than with a basal text approach. Sixty low socioeconomic level students from the seven first grades of one elementary school in a small South Carolina town were randomly…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (Austin, Texas, November 28-December 1, 2007)
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Kim, Youb, Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Hundley, Melanie K., Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2008
This publication offers the 57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of two awardees, John E. McEneaney and Scott G. Paris. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) The Education of African-American Students: Voicing the Debates, Controversies, and Solutions…
Descriptors: African American Students, Recreational Reading, Reading Ability, Scholarship