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The secret life of connectives: a taxonomy to study individual differences in mid-adolescents’ use of connectives in writing to persuade

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The secret life of connectives: a taxonomy to study individual differences in mid-adolescents’ use of connectives in writing to persuade Full article available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11145-023-10425-3 Abstract Mid-adolescence has...

The secret life of connectives: a taxonomy to study individual differences in mid-adolescents’ use of connectives in writing to persuade

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Mid-adolescence has been identified as a period of considerable potential growth in the language skills and practices that support reading and writing at school, but little research has examined mid-adolescents’ use of connectives in school-relevant...

The Language for School Literacy: Widening the lens on language and reading relations during adolescence

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Examining Developmental Relations Between Core Academic Language Skills and Reading Comprehension for English Learners and Their Peers

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New Publication: Broadening the Lens on the Science of Reading

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Broadening the Lens on the Science of Reading: A Multifaceted Perspective on the Role of Academic Language in Text Understanding is published in Reading Research Quarterly. Merging evidence from psychological models of reading comprehension, ethnographic...

Semantic development

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Semantic development: Learning the Meanings of Words

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Learning to talk: A partial review of research on Spanish language development

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Fifth-Grade Students’ Digital Retellings and the Common Core

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Sintaxis y discurso. Dos áreas de investigación en la adquisición del español oral

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Understanding Depth of Vocabulary Online With Bilingual and Monolingual Children

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The sheer quantity of words known (breadth) is strongly predictive of reading comprehension, yet little is understood about how quality of word knowledge (depth) affects comprehension. A group of 35 bilingual and monolingual 5th-grade students worked on...

Multilingual and multicultural learners: Development in more than one language

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Dual Language Learners Our studies with Spanish/English bilingual learners document the positive contribution of Spanish language skills and practices to English language and literacy for U.S. students. In addition to evidence that highlights the need to...