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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Kindergartners"”.
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Factors Affecting Pitch-Matching Ability of Kindergartners
… investigate factors that aided in the ability of kindergartners who have had no formal musical training prior to entering the school system to match pitches vocally. Some kindergartners have no difficulty matching pitches and some have considerable trouble with this task. The hypothesis of this …
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Increasing social relationships among kindergartners using peer reporting
<p>This study focused on increasing the social relationships of kindergarten students using peer reporting. This method encouraged children to use social skills on the playground. In addition, the students were encouraged to report the observed use of social skills to be recognized by their …
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English language learning kindergartners' dynamic responses to picturebook reading
… the nature of English language learning by kindergartners as they engage in multimodal literacy practices in response to picturebook readings in a mainstream classroom. Three focal Spanish-speaking kindergartners and their classroom teacher took part in this study. Data were collected daily …
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Re-visioning narrative competence: exploring kindergartners' collaborative story construction
This qualitative study explored young children's narrative competence, i.e. sense of story (Martinez, Cheney, & Teale, 1993). It used a combination of videotaping and interviewing to examine multiple perspectives of spontaneous child-constructed stories in the context of classroom sociodramatic …
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Kindergartners' Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… difference in the quantity of words generated by kindergartners when retelling a story read to them from a book (read aloud) as compared to when a story was told orally, without a book (storytelling). The subjects of this study were 42 kindergarten students attending an urban school district in …
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Familial influences on kindergartners' social adjustment: Assessment and effects of the marital subsystem
… subsystem, parent-child relationships, and kindergartners' social adjustment. Mothers completed the Parenting Relationship Scale (PRS), a measure assessing the marital subsystem; observations of mother-child interaction were coded for emotional connectedness and support for child's autonomy; …
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Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study
Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study Lora Bower Candidate for Master of Science in Education The College at Brockport, State University of new York, 2014 Abstract This self-study is my attempt to determine how I could use Lucy …
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How Kindergartners' Talks and Drawings Inform Our Ways of Developing a Curriculum of Caring and Imagination
<p>This study explores how kindergartners' talks and drawings inform our ways of developing a curriculum of caring and imagination. The mandates of kidnergartners' curriculum tend to emphasize children's mastery of literacy skills while ignoring their natural development and imagination. Author's …
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Show and Tell: Learning with Interactive Videoconferencing in Kindergarten
The research investigated how kindergartners make meaning using interactive videoconferencing. The study explored two research questions: 1) What types of meanings are being formed by the kindergartners during interactive videoconferences and, 2) What are the nature of young children's emerging …
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An Assessment of Home and Classroom Literacy Environments and the Emergent Literacy Development of Kindergarten Students in Two Southwestern Michigan School Districts
… of print, writing, and story concepts of kindergartners in two selected school districts. It also explored whether there was a difference in the performance of students from morning, afternoon, alternate whole-day, and whole-day kindergarten programs. It also examined the relationships …
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Reconstructive and reproductive processes in children's recall for prose structure and content
… in children’s recall for stories. Specifically, kindergartners, second-graders, and fourth-graders were compared on accuracy measures of both recall structure and content as a function of the form of the presented story and the recall instructions provided. Forty-six kindergartners, 45 …
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Teaching Children to Decode Words: Connected Versus Segmented Phonation
… methods of decoding instruction were compared. Kindergartners who could not decode nonwords participated in the study, <em>N</em> = 38, <em>M</em> = 5.6 years. Segmented phonation, frequently used in synthetic phonics programs, taught students to convert graphemes to phonemes by breaking the …
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Using BEA and parent-tutors to boost achievement for K-PALS nonresponders.
… select promising early reading interventions for kindergartners (2 boys aged 6 years 6-8 months) who were nonresponsive to Kindergarten Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (K-PALS), an evidence-based reading program, delivered in their classroom during the school year and to train their parents to …
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The Parents As Teachers Program And Kindergarten Literacy Readiness
… in this school district in comparison to non-PAT kindergartners. The overall results from this study support continuing implementation of the PAT program in this area because it appears that PAT children are entering school with sufficient literacy readiness skills based on the Fall 2005 and …
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An investigation of the effects of a rest period on simple reaction times of kindergarten children
… to investigate the effects of a rest period on kindergartners’ performance in a simple reaction time situation. Effects of sex, class, time of measurement and practice on simple reaction time were also factors investigated in the present study. The sample consisted of 32 children ranging in …
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The Peer Status of Gifted Children Across Educational Settings
… and social status. Results indicate that gifted kindergartners were more accepted and more popular than non-gifted classmates. Also, male kindergarten students tended to be less accepted and more rejected than females. There were no significant findings for the ungraded primary classrooms, …
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Transition to Kindergarten: exploring concepts of worry, transition activities, and parent efficacy
… 85 Missouri parents of current and previous-year Kindergartners.
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The Impact Literacy Coaches Have On Mississippi's Lower-Performing Schools
… the Early Literacy STAR assessment for kindergartners and the STAR assessment for first through third-graders. This assessment was administered twice during the 2015-2016 school year. The pretest was given in August; the posttest was given in April/May. These students came from four …
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Constructing a Joint Story -Writing Space: The Dynamics of Young Children's Collaboration at Computers
This study explored kindergartners' and first graders' collaborative processes in order to understand the nature of peer collaboration and the learning opportunities afforded by peer discourse. Framed by a sociocultural perspective and relying on discourse analysis, this study focused on how …
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