Catherine Snow

Word Generation is a curricular intervention designed to promote adolescents' knowledge and use of academic vocabulary by providing opportunities for students to read and comprehend brief academic texts on compelling and controversial topics, to discuss those texts, to hear the academic words highlighted in those texts in a variety of settings, and to write brief persuasive essays about the controversial topics focused on. Word Generation materials have been developed for use in 6th, 7th, an...

This research team will work in collaboration with Boston Public Schools to identify policies, classroom-level factors, and school experiences that are associated with children's school success during pre-k and early elementary school grades. The researchers will collect qualitative and quantitative data to address three issues: 1) how students' cumulative experiences within and across settings affect their development over time; 2) how students' characteristics and skills interact dynamical...

The purpose of this grant was to explore the contributions of perspective taking, complex reasoning, and academic language skills to reading for understanding for upper elementary and middle school students; to develop, refine, and test the efficacy of two literacy programs that target the development of these skills for a general population of students and for struggling readers; and to develop professional learning opportunities for science teachers that could serve as a model for other conten

In 2003-2004, English language learner services were provided to 3.8 million students in the U.S., or 11 percent of all students. Most English language learners confront an educational landscape where they must study and be tested on grade-level curricula in a new language at the same time they are learning that language.