For example, Tahoe is reading about the responsibilities of citizens and some of his vocabulary words are vote, candidate, and ballot. I will model for them how to put together a skit (by themselves or with someone else in the household) how to use all three of those words into a little...
For example, you might ask students to circle the plural of "foot," given the choices foots, footes and feet. Students should learn uncommon plural spellings for words, such as child, mouse, deer, tooth and fish, according to the Common Core State Standards Initiative for second graders. ...
The goal of this study was to investigate Emergent Bilinguals' (EBs) knowledge about words that convey both specific mathematical meanings as well as everyday meanings (e.g., the "volume" of a triangular prism and the "volume" of an Iphone). We selected 12 multiple-meaning words for their...
Running head: FOURTH GRADERS' MULTIPLE-DOCUMENT COMPREHENSION Going Beyond Children's Single-Text Comprehension: The Role of Fundamental and Higher–Level ... Background. Children's comprehension of single texts relies on both foundational and higher-level skills. These are also assumed to support ...
fourth graders wrote two essays, one on the healthiness of chocolate and one on the effects of video gaming. Only 18 and 31% of the students, respectively, were found to include opposing perspectives in their essays. Kiili et al. (2020) found that one-third of the sixth graders included ...