Finally, the investigation reported in the previous chapter revealed that word characteristics (importance to the events of the story and informativeness of verbal and picture support) could not account for the vocabulary knowledge gains R and W reported. 2.2 Maximizing Volume These experiments provide unequivocal evidence that frequent reading encounters "work"; meeting words often makes it possible for learners to engage in the crucial process of formulating and testing hypotheses about meanings. ... Furthermore, as our brief venture in this direction showed, it is not at all clear that s...

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In this class, you are required to come up with a unit and construct the curriculum for it that would last a month. ... One example is when I came up with a science project that was about matching the picture of a whale to the name. ... I ended up changing it into a small group activity where I would hold up the name and then say it, and then the children would work together to pick out the picture that matched. ... If the children were to show that they were extremely in need of a running or gross motor activity, then you have to be flexible in the sense that if you had a different, less of a...

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Northern Caribbean University College of Education and Religion Department of Education MTED 201: Primary Mathematics Methods Factors that influence how children learn Psychological influences Professional influences Technological influences Language influences Societal influences ...

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