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Full-Text Articles in Early Childhood Education
Our Lives Are Worth Celebrating, Darius M. Phelps, Brian Mooney
Our Lives Are Worth Celebrating, Darius M. Phelps, Brian Mooney
New Jersey English Journal
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The Power Of Print: Supporting Emergent Readers Vocabulary Growth, Susan J. Chambre
The Power Of Print: Supporting Emergent Readers Vocabulary Growth, Susan J. Chambre
New Jersey English Journal
Vocabulary instructional practices are grounded in oral language development, neglecting the role print plays enhancing student learning. This article offers suggestions for early childhood educators to reconceptualize their thinking of print exposure with supporting vocabulary development. Suggestions of ways to incorporate print exposure into daily classroom routines are provided.
Exploring The Strategies Students Use When Reading, Evelyn Gilles
Exploring The Strategies Students Use When Reading, Evelyn Gilles
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Research in the field of reading has shown that oral reading fluency is important because it is correlated to successful reading comprehension. Although some students acquire fluency skills, others struggle to use strategies to develop fluency. My concerns about reading fluency came about because my students were not reading texts smoothly and accurately. This action research project was designed to discover what strategies first grade students use to read unfamiliar words. Specifically, I focused on whether or not blending would be a good strategy to improve reading fluency. In order to address the issue of reading fluency, I gathered information …
Discovering The Connections Students Make During Reading, Suzanne Nepomuceno
Discovering The Connections Students Make During Reading, Suzanne Nepomuceno
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Research shows that reading comprehension is enhanced if the reader constructs meaning by making connections to the text. Connections may be made between readers and their background knowledge and/or between readers and other texts they have read. The purpose of this action research project was to determine if teaching students how to make these two kinds of connections would enhance their comprehension. To this end, a metacognitive strategy called Making Connections was implemented and taught to the students during their normal reading lessons. Data were collected through interviews with the students about this strategy, observation charts that recorded their connections, …