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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"First graders"”.
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How do first graders define a family?
The goal of this study was to determine how first grade students define a family. Qualitative research was used as the methodology for this inquiry. The participants were thirteen first grade inclusion students in a school that is located in Southern New Jersey. An instructional unit depicting …
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FIRST GRADERS AS SENSITIVE SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLED READERS
… capacities in these areas at the end of their first grade year, and (2) documenting their reading experiences at home and at school through ethnographic qualitative methods. The analyses revealed significant positive correlations between the tests of reading and social understanding, a scarcity …
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Active learning: strategies that help first graders transition and build literacy skills
… inquiry was to investigate what happens when first grade students that have not had the benefits of Preschool or Kindergarten education engage in active learning activities. The study was aimed at looking into how such activities can help with the transition into formal education, as well as …
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Examining Beginning year Writing Production of First Graders: Lined Versus Unlined Paper
… hundred samples of emergent writing from twenty first grade students at the beginning of a school year. This study provides evidence that emergent writers produce more letters and words on unlined paper than lined paper. The student writing was measured in terms of letters and words students …
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Building background knowledge in science: English language learners, sheltered instruction, and first graders
… knowledge, was used to teach science in a first grade classroom to see if it could increase the science comprehension of ELLs. Many strategies were used to teach vocabulary during the first four days of each science unit. These strategies included setting aside a vocabulary only day, …
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Maternal Scaffolding and First Graders' Near and Far Transfer on Problem-Solving Tasks
<p>This study examined correlations between four dimensions of maternal scaffolding, maternal beliefs and values, children’s temperament, and children’s performance and use of self‑regulation strategies on problem‑solving tasks. There are two foci of this study: examining factors that predict the …
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Understanding the Reading in English and Spanish of Four Hispanic Bilingual First-Graders
… English and Spanish of four Hispanic bilingual first-graders, whose teachers considered to be developing readers in their classroom language. Two of the children initially received formal literacy instruction in Spanish, later transitioning into English literacy instruction, while the other two …
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The effects of teacher learning modality and student learning modality upon achievement for first graders
… auditory, kinesthetic, and mixed modalities for first graders;2. To ascertain differences, if any, in cognitive ability levels among the four perceptual modality groups;3. With cognitive ability controlled, to determine the achievement levels in reading, language, and mathematics among the …
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Evaluating the response time criterion for defining first graders' fluency with basic addition and subtraction
The meaningful learning of basic number combinations typically progresses through three overlapping phases: counting, deliberate reasoning, and retrieval. The aim of conducting the present study was to evaluate the 3-seconds response time (RT) criterion used for defining achievement of retrieval of …
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The effects of individual preference and interactive style on first graders' performance in solving math problems
… and competitively was examined. Eighty-nine first graders were assessed for their preferences for cooperative or competitive interactive styles. Thirty-eight children were found to have clear preferences for either cooperative or competitive styles, or to have no preference for interactive …
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A Quasi-Experimental Study to Determine the Effect of Daily Oral Language on First Graders' Editing Skills
… Language (DOL) strategy on the editing skills of first graders. This study involved two first-grade classrooms: one classroom received DOL on a daily basis; the other classroom did not. The Stanford Achievement Test-9 was administered at the beginning of the school year to determine students' …
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Reducing Off-Task Behaviors in First Graders with Disabilities through an Adaptation of the Good Behavior Game
… lead to decreases in off-task behaviors for first-grade students with disabilities during whole group instruction, and if the classroom teacher viewed the intervention positively. Three first grade, male students with disabilities, their first-grade teacher, and the first-grade class were …
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The effectiveness of a multi-sensory phonological awareness and letter knowledge training programme for disadvantaged first graders
… and letter knowledge programme for disadvantaged first graders. One control group and one experimental group, each consisting of 20 children, were matched for age, gender, school readiness, socio-economic status and phonological awareness. Twenty-nine sessions of phonological awareness and letter …
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The effects of the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program on reading fluency and comprehension of at-risk first-graders
… reading fluency, and comprehension of at-risk first graders in one southwestern Michigan school district.</p> <p>In the first phase of this research, baseline data in phonemic awareness and fluency scores were collected from two different first-grade classrooms to determine which students would …
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The type of support that family literacy programme graduate parents give to their first graders of formal school in Oshana region
… Literacy graduate parents render to their 151 graders of formal school (2) impacts of Family Literacy Programme on parents to support children in their learning (3) strategies to help improve the implementation of Family Literacy Programme. The study conceptualised parents' educational …
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