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Kim, James S.; Burkhauser, Mary A.; Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Gilbert, Joshua B.; Scherer, Ethan; Fitzgerald, Jill; Mosher, Douglas; McIntyre, Joseph – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
We developed a sustained content literacy intervention that emphasized building domain and topic knowledge from Grade 1 to Grade 2 and evaluated transfer effects on students' reading comprehension outcomes. The Model of Reading Engagement (MORE) intervention emphasizes thematic lessons that provide an intellectual framework for helping students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Literacy Education
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Kim, James S.; Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Burkhauser, Mary A.; Scherer, Ethan; Rich, Patrick – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
This experimental study aimed to replicate and extend a previous efficacy study of an elementary grade content literacy intervention that demonstrated positive effects on students' vocabulary knowledge depth, argumentative writing, and reading comprehension. Using a cluster (school) randomized trial design, this replication experiment was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
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Kim, James S.; Guryan, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with and without a parent training component were evaluated with a sample of low-income Latino children from language minority families. During the last month of 4th grade, 370 children were pretested on a measure of reading comprehension and vocabulary and were randomly assigned to (a) a…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Intervention