Schacheter and Piasta conducted a phenomenological study in which 20 preschool teachers participated in observations, planning interviews, and simulated recall interviews designed with the goal of understanding how the teachers used data to guide their students’ language and literacy development.
The Word Nerds Project: Findings from a Research-Practice Partnership Focused on Spelling Instruction[PDF] by Laura S. Tortorelli and Lori Bruner
This paper describes the ‘Word Nerds’ project, a research–practice partnership consisting of two researchers from a large public university and 17 elementary teachers in seven school districts in the United States. The collaboration was formed to study variation in instructional practice among teachers using the Words Their Way programme and address teacher-generated questions related to how children learn to spell words.
Paved for Success: Building Vocabulary and Language Development in Young Learners, Chapter 1 [PDF] by Claire E. Hamilton and Paula J. Schwanenflugel
This book is a guide for building a strong foundation for reading during the early childhood years. We have collaborated with classroom teachers to design clear, realistic, practical, and successful strategies that work in real classrooms with real teachers and real students.
