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Hug, bug, and rug rhyme! An intervention on phonemic awareness using sound blending, segmenting, and rhyming	Mastering the language of multiplication: Understanding multiplication through writing and sharing word problems

First, next, then, last: Using stuffed animals and graphic organizers to aid in retelling in a second grade classroom	The power of parts of speech: Teaching ELLs students grammar to empower their writing

The art of descriptive writing: As seen through the fourth grade pencil	Graphic organizer and checklist: Strategies to improve summarization skills

The effects of graphic organizers on third grade students' narrative writing	Thinking mathematically through discussions of reading comprehension strategies

Using vocabulary as a roadmap to successful writing: Teaching synonyms, similes, and metaphors to improve student writing	"I know them now, I promise!": Kindergarten students engaging in letter play to become emergent readers

"Can we use a story map?": Using a story map graphic organizer to improve student's narrative writing	Step up to writing, step into summaries: Improving the organization of student summary writing with the use of outlines

Tales of a fourth grade something: Using readers' theatre to promote reading comprehension	Stuck on a word: Word sorting and its effects on decoding and spelling

Book reviews as response to literature: Their role in promoting engagement and reading comprehension	"Mrs. Lindsey, word problems CAN be fun!" How constructing authentic problems develop math language

Read it like you mean it: Using Reader's Theatre to improve oral reading fluency	Fostering a relational interpretation of the equal sign with first grade students: Math education action research

The art is in the details: Using visual literacy to promote staying on topic and writing with details in an elementary classroom	Context clue detectives: Empowering students with a self-learning device through the teaching of context clues

"Really reading": Adapting cultural modeling with diverse first-graders in California	You mean we have to talk in math?

"Fancy phrases": Improving vocabulary in students' narrative writing	Does this go in the introduction or the body paragraph? The effects of a graphic organizer on the overall cohesiveness of sixth grade students' essay writing

"Maestra why don't you ever pick me?": Using manipulatives and sentence frames to increase academic vocabulary in retellings of familiar stories	Energizing student thinking: The power of decision making and evaluation in science

I know! I am going to draw this!: Using talking drawings to promote reading comprehension and retellings in expository text	Discovering a voice: Using read-alouds and interactive writing to assist kindergarten students in writing sentences that are more descriptive and parallel spoken language

"The words make it confusing": Considering multiple learning modalities when solving story problems	"That graphic organizer is awesome" A study examining second grade writers using a graphic organizer and checklist to improve their writing

"Brown is a describing word": Improving the use of descriptive language in writing through memoirs	Realizing and recognizing long vowel spelling patterns: Encoding and decoding words in and out of context

"How would you solve it?": Individual word problem solving success through daily group collaboration of 5th grade students	Literature circles encircling reading comprehension

Using phonemic awareness strategies to increase fluency	"I'm a star pupil!" How the color-coding strategy used in Step Up to Writing helps third graders better organize their expository writing and improve their self-confidence as writers

Shared reading of self-selected books with kindergartners: What can students and their teacher learn?	Understand the Path of a Narrative: A Study of Primary Children's Concept of Narrative Writing

"En la escuela, you have to speak Spanish.": Language choices and their effect upon L2 proficiency in a Spanish immersion classroom	The challenge of developing academic language in Spanish and English through science: The case of two teachers' strategic teaching practices

Elementary school teachers' mathematics instructional decision making in the context of district mandates on instruction	Elementary school principals and No Child Left Behind: A two-case comparative study

Conditional success: Identifying the conditions which are perceived to influence urban elementary school student success	When the school "faucet" turns off, the sociocultural "sprinklers" turn on: Observing funds of knowledge among first and second grade English learners who experienced summer gains in reading

Starting a learning progression for agricultural literacy: A qualitative study of urban elementary student understandings of agricultural and science education benchmarks