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The Impact Of Small Group Direct Instruction On The Vocabulary Development Of Fourth Grade Students, Rachel Solum Dec 2021

The Impact Of Small Group Direct Instruction On The Vocabulary Development Of Fourth Grade Students, Rachel Solum

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This 2021 study focused on the impact that small group vocabulary instruction had on the vocabulary development of 4th grade students. I wanted to see the effect that small group instruction had on students’ vocabulary growth. Students were pulled into a small group every day for four straight weeks. There was four groups of four students involved. During this small group time the teacher pulled vocabulary words from the word wall. The words on the word wall were tier two vocabulary words that had been pulled from various interactive read alouds. The teacher followed Marzano’s Six Step Approach to teaching …