Search Results - "McKeown, Margaret G"

Increasing Young Low‐Income Children’s Oral Vocabulary Repertoires through Rich and Focused Instruction by Beck, Isabel L., McKeown, Margaret G.

“…This article reports on 2 studies with kindergarten and first‐grade children from a low‐achieving elementary school that provided vocabulary instruction by the…”
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Effective Vocabulary Instruction Fosters Knowing Words, Using Words, and Understanding How Words Work by McKeown, Margaret G

“…Purpose This clinical focus article will highlight the importance of vocabulary instruction, in particular, thinking about instruction in terms of focusing…”
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Word Knowledge and Comprehension Effects of an Academic Vocabulary Intervention for Middle School Students by McKeown, Margaret G., Crosson, Amy C., Moore, Debra W., Beck, Isabel L.

“…This article presents findings from an intervention across sixth and seventh grades to teach academic words to middle school students. The goals included…”
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Extending the bounds of morphology instruction: teaching Latin roots facilitates academic word learning for English Learner adolescents by Crosson, Amy C., McKeown, Margaret G., Moore, Debra W., Ye, Feifei

“…This study investigated the hypothesis that academic vocabulary instruction infused with morphological analysis of bound Latin roots-such as analysis of the…”
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Middle School Learners' Use of Latin Roots to Infer the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words by Crosson, Amy C., McKeown, Margaret G.

“…This study investigated how middle school students leverage information about bound Latin roots (e.g., voc in advocate and vociferous) to infer meanings of…”
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Think Like a Linguist: Leveraging Multilingual Students’ Expertise about Language by Crosson, Amy C., Tapu, Christine, McKeown, Margaret G.

“…In this article, we focus on a series of lessons, called Think Like a Linguist, that we designed and implemented with multilingual adolescents. These lessons…”
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Effects of vocabulary instruction on measures of language processing: Comparing two approaches by McKeown, Margaret G., Beck, Isabel L.

“…•We examined effects of vocabulary instruction on kindergartners.•Measures examined a progression from word knowledge to comprehension and…”
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Bringing Reading Research to Life by McKeown, Margaret G., Ed, Kucan, Linda, Ed

“…This book brings together some of the world's foremost literacy scholars to discuss how research influences what teachers actually do in the classroom…”
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Morphological analysis skill and academic vocabulary knowledge are malleable through intervention and may contribute to reading comprehension for multilingual adolescents by Crosson, Amy C., McKeown, Margaret G., Lei, Puiwa, Zhao, Hui, Li, Xinyue, Patrick, Kelly, Brown, Kathleen, Shen, Yaqi

“…Background Morphological analysis skill is the ability to problem‐solve meanings of unfamiliar words by applying knowledge of morphological constituents. For…”
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Effects of the Triple Q Intervention on Argument Writing: Findings from a Small-Scale Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial by Crosson, Amy C., Correnti, Richard, Matsumura, Lindsay Clare, McKeown, Margaret G.

“…We examined the effects of a text-based argument writing intervention, Triple Q, on argument writing skills in a cluster-randomized trial where groups of…”
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Rethinking Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Comparison of Instruction for Strategies and Content Approaches by McKeown, Margaret G., Beck, Isabel L., Blake, Ronette G.K.

“…Reports from research and the larger educational community demonstrate that too many students have limited ability to comprehend texts. The research reported…”
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Key Elements of Robust Vocabulary Instruction for Emergent Bilingual Adolescents by Crosson, Amy C, McKeown, Margaret G, Robbins, Kelly P, Brown, Kathleen J

“…Purpose: In this clinical focus article, the authors argue for robust vocabulary instruction with emergent bilingual learners both in inclusive classroom…”
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The Curious Role of Morphological Family Size in Language Minority Learners' Problem Solving of Unfamiliar Words by Crosson, Amy C., Lei, Pui-Wa, Cheng, Weiyi, McKeown, Margaret G.

“…Given that words from the academic layer of English typically carry bound roots (min in diminish) rather than free-standing base words (small in smaller),…”
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Accelerating Adolescent Vocabulary Growth: Development of an Individualized, Web-Based, Vocabulary Instruction Program by Adlof, Suzanne M, Baron, Lauren S, Scoggins, Joanna, Kapelner, Adam, McKeown, Margaret G, Perfetti, Charles A, Miller, Elaine, Soterwood, Jeanine, Petscher, Yaacov

“…Purpose: Improving vocabulary knowledge is important for many adolescents, but there are few evidence-based vocabulary instruction programs available for high…”
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An Innovative Approach to Assessing Depth of Knowledge of Academic Words by Crosson, Amy C., McKeown, Margaret G., Ward, Arthur K

“…The purpose of this research is to develop a vocabulary assessment, Evaluation of Academic Vocabulary or "EAV," that gauges students' depth of knowledge of…”
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Text Talk: Capturing the Benefits of Read-Aloud Experiences for Young Children by Beck, Isabel L., McKeown, Margaret G.

“…Considers what the research literature suggests about the kinds of texts and kinds of talk that are most beneficial for read-aloud experiences. Provides an…”
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In The Media: Expanding Students' Experience With Academic Vocabulary by McKeown, Margaret G., Crosson, Amy C., Artz, Nancy J., Sandora, Cheryl, Beck, Isabel L.

“…How can we supplement the limited time available for vocabulary instruction while motivating students to attend to the words they are learning? As a part of an…”
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Effects of long-term vocabulary instruction on lexical access and reading comprehension by Beck, Isabel L, Perfetti, Charles A, McKeown, Margaret G

“…To examine the relationship between knowledge of word meanings and semantic processes, 27 4th-grade children were taught 104 words over a 5-mo period…”
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Handbook of Metacognition in Education by Hacker, Douglas J., Ed, Dunlosky, John, Ed, Graesser, Arthur C., Ed

“…Providing comprehensive coverage of the theoretical bases of metacognition and its applications to educational practice, this compendium of focused and…”
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INCREASING REMEDIAL STUDENTS' ABILITY TO DERIVE WORD MEANING FROM CONTEXT by Goerss, Betty L, Beck, Isabel L, McKeown, Margaret G

“…The purpose of the present study was to determine the extent to which the process of deriving word meaning from context could be enhanced through an…”
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