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Mlakar-Hillig, Mary Ellen; Malvin, Pam; Troy, Leonora – 2002
This report describes a program for improving vocabulary development thorough balanced literacy. The targeted population consisted of three elementary classrooms in a community located in a southern suburb of Chicago. A lack of vocabulary knowledge that interfered with student academic success was documented in state and standardized test results,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness