Sentences with phrase «word generation students»

Word Generation students who improved their vocabulary scores also tended to improve their MCAS scores.

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He continued: «Over 800 high school students from across British Columbia attended WE FOR SHE last November, and this event with Mrs. Obama will ensure that her words are heard by some of the people who will be most inspired by them: young women and the next generation of leaders.»

Several generations of students at Duke Divinity School have heard James «Mickey» Efird use those carnivalesque words to conclude debates over the meaning of a biblical passage.

The crowd that had gathered for The Relay — word of which had filtered through the school's 1,150 students and among the old swimmers» kinfolk — included enough longhairs and graybeards to belie the generation gap.

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Many students moan at the thought of a poetry lesson because they think of poems only as an art form of past generations that contain words and feelings from time periods they can't relate to.

Word Generation zeros in on these research - based practices to promote students» learning of the target vocabulary words.

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Snow and her colleagues carried out a quasi-experimental study comparing nearly 700 sixth - to eighth - grade students in five Word Generation schools to more than 300 students in three other Boston Public schools that did not choose to implement the program.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

As expected, the students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

«One benefit of tying debate to the Word Generation curriculum is that it gives the students the platform for integrating these academic language vocabulary words.»

These are among a handful of topics that middle school students in New York City have tackled as part of their Saturday debate program, which draws heavily from Word Generation, the innovative curriculum developed under the direction of HGSE Professor Catherine Snow.

Since those words were written, nearly two generations of students have passed through U.S. schools.

The authors describe Word Generation, a whole - school vocabulary program that introduces students to academic words that commonly occur across content areas.

Developed by Catherine Snow and Claire White, Word Generation is a research - based vocabulary program for middle school students that teaches words through language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes.

Word Generation uses engaging paragraphs on contemporary issues to present crucial, all - purpose academic words and provides activities to help students learn them.

We administered a multiple - choice test of 40 of the 120 Word Generation words as both a pre-test and a post-test to students in grades 6, 7, and 8.

In 2007, we began a quasi-experiment to compare students attending five middle schools that self - selected themselves to adopt the Word Generation program with students attending three middle schools that the district recruited to serve as comparison schools.

The majority of students in both the Word Generation schools and the comparison schools were from low - income homes.

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