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Six-week multi-component social studies vocabulary intervention package for fourth grade

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Description

A researcher-designed six-week curriculum for fourth-grade social studies in which treatment teachers spent at least 90 minutes per week of language arts time on vocabulary instruction, preferably in 30-minute segments three times per week. "The training included the use of each of the following: explicit instruction; student study teams; active engagement in learning tasks; vocabulary maps; connections webs; semantic feature analysis." Teachers received curriculum notebooks, supplemental materials, and games such as Ready, Set, Go, Vocabulary Memory, and Jeopardy, providing repetition and use of words in multiple contexts. Implementation was monitored weekly by trained observers using a checklist with quality rated on a 0-2 scale.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teacher training in the vocabulary instructional methods prior to implementation
  • A minimum of 90 minutes per week of instructional time, preferably 30 minutes three times per week

Constraints

  • Teachers reported lack of time to complete the instructional strategies and concern that the vocabulary focus limited coverage of textbook content

Target Learners

  • fourth-grade social studies students

Learning Goals

  • retention of social studies word meanings in isolation and in context
  • comprehension of expository content-area text

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Key Sources

  • Graham, L., Graham, A., & West, C. (2015). From Research to Practice: The Effect of Multi-Component Vocabulary Instruction on Increasing Vocabulary and Comprehension Performance in Social Studies. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 8(1), 147-160. https://www.iejee.com
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title Six-week multi-component social studies vocabulary intervention package for fourth grade
description A researcher-designed six-week curriculum for fourth-grade social studies in which treatment teachers spent at least 90 minutes per week of language arts time on vocabulary instruction, preferably in 30-minute segment...
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