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Terry, Nicole Patton; Gatlin-Nash, Brandy; Webb, Mi-Young; Summy, S. Rebecca; Raines, Rhonda – Elementary School Journal, 2023
Nearly 30 years ago, Chall, Jacobs, and Baldwin introduced the fourth-grade slump to describe the unexpected deceleration of reading skills between first and fourth grades among children growing up in poverty and low-income households. Advances in our understanding of reading development and how race, racism, or other forms of discrimination are…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Blacks, African American Students, Grade 1
White, Zainab U.; Toste, Jessica R.; Filderman, Marissa J. – Elementary School Journal, 2023
Literacy is essential to the development of any nation. Despite foreign aid to support education initiatives in Africa, high rates of illiteracy persist. This synthesis examined the extent to which early literacy intervention research has been conducted in Africa and the effects of these interventions on reading outcomes for students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
Samudre, Mark D.; LeJeune, Lauren M. – Elementary School Journal, 2023
There is an apparent need to identify resource- and time-efficient approaches to supporting teacher implementers of behavioral interventions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief training and intermittent performance feedback coaching model on teacher implementation of a multicomponent behavioral intervention.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Program Implementation, Fidelity, Elementary School Teachers
Wood, Carla; Wanzek, Jeanne; Schatschneider, Christopher – Elementary School Journal, 2022
This study aimed to examine verbal behaviors within communicative interactions at the teacher/classroom level among second-grade classrooms that differ in socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. Investigators recorded and examined language use across instructional periods for 38 second-grade classrooms. Teachers' communication behaviors were…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Classroom Communication, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Broemmel, Amy D.; Rigell, Amanda; Swafford, K. Journey – Elementary School Journal, 2022
This multicase study seeks to privilege teachers' voices related to their experiences within a year-long job-embedded professional development (PD) program. The district initiated the request for PD, which was negotiated and provided by a literacy educator from a nearby university. Eleven second- and third-grade teachers and the language arts…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 2, Grade 3, Faculty Development
Marich, Holly; Brandon, Diana; Greenhow, Christine; Hartman, Douglas K. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
Information on children's writing in online spaces is scarce. What young writers know or need to know to be effective communicators online can inform elementary writing instruction and technology integration in writing classrooms. This study adds to the nascent research on children's online writing by reporting on the writing processes of eight…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Social Media
Hall, Colby; Capin, Philip; Vaughn, Sharon; Gillam, Sandra L.; Wada, Rebekah; Fall, Anna-Mária; Roberts, Greg; Dille, Jordan T.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
This study examined the amount and types of narrative instruction (i.e., story comprehension, oral storytelling, and story writing instruction) that general education English language arts teachers provide to students in grades 1 through 4. The research team conducted 121 approximately 30-minute classroom observations. Educators were asked to…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Teachers, Grade 1, Grade 2
García, Georgia Earnest; Taylor, Barbara M.; Pearson, P. David; Bray, Teresa Méndez; Primeaux, Joan; Mora, Raúl Alberto – Elementary School Journal, 2021
A mixed-design study investigated how teachers and second/third- and fourth-grade bilingual students in three high-poverty schools responded to dialogic cognitive strategy instruction or dialogic responsive engagement (RE) instruction compared with a treated control (vocabulary). The second graders were taught in Spanish, and the fourth graders…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Bilingual Students
Datchuk, Shawn M.; Hier, Bridget O.; Watts, Emily A. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
We conducted a skills analysis on written expression curriculum-based measurement (WE-CBM) tasks completed by 117 second-grade students. As part of the skills analysis, we scored two WE-CBM tasks (i.e., narrative and expository) for correct and incorrect writing sequences, common writing errors, and sentence structures. Although a majority of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Curriculum Based Assessment
Yazdani, Neshat; Siedlecki, Karen L.; Cao, Zihuan; Cham, Heining – Elementary School Journal, 2020
Extensive literature highlights positive outcomes experienced by students whose parents and teachers have strong relationships, but less is known about the factors that influence parent-teacher relationship strength. Using data from "The Impact of Grade Retention: A Developmental Approach," we identify parent-level predictors of the…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Predictor Variables, Interpersonal Relationship, Elementary Schools
Son, Seung-Hee Claire; Butcher, Kirsten R.; Liang, Lauren Aimonette – Elementary School Journal, 2020
This study investigates how interactive features embedded in the illustrations of storybook apps influenced young readers' story enjoyment and comprehension. Kindergartners and second graders (N = 91) were randomly assigned to read storybook apps in an interactive or noninteractive condition. Findings showed that children's self-reported enjoyment…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Reading Comprehension, Preferences, Recall (Psychology)
Chow, Jason C.; Wehby, Joseph H. – Elementary School Journal, 2019
The purposes of this study were (a) to test the efficacy of whole-class equal-sign instruction, (b) to contrast the effects of symbolic and nonsymbolic instructional representation, (c) to determine whether visual representation compensated for language deficits, and (d) to evaluate maintenance of intervention. We randomly assigned 195 children…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Symbols (Mathematics), Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Elementary School Journal, 2016
This article describes nine phases of curriculum-development activities conducted by the Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC), the end result of which was to arrive at a research-based supplemental curriculum that could be used by teachers of English-speaking or bilingual Spanish-English-speaking children in prekindergarten and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Dwyer, Julie; Kelcey, Ben; Berebitsky, Dan; Carlisle, Joanne F. – Elementary School Journal, 2016
In theory, engaging students in discussion helps them learn how to understand and think critically about texts. Researchers have sought to identify effective features of teacher-led text-based discussions by designing specific discussion-group programs and investigating their influence on students' comprehension in upper elementary classrooms.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Group Discussion, Elementary School Students, Measures (Individuals)
Agodini, Roberto; Harris, Barbara – Elementary School Journal, 2016
Research shows that some elementary math curricula are more effective than others at increasing student achievement. Most studies in this research base typically included teachers and classrooms that differ, so the results represent "average" curriculum effects, which raises an important question: Are curricula that are effective on…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics