Jorge Gonzalez

The Words of Oral Reading and Language Development (WORLD) is a shared book reading intervention previously developed, piloted, and refined through an IES Development grant. This intervention is designed to develop and accelerate science and social studies content-related vocabulary and background knowledge in preschool-aged children for later reading with comprehension. WORLD incorporates explicit and implicit shared book-reading strategies (e.g., prompting, elaborating, inferencing) in ric...

The purpose of this project is to develop a modular curriculum designed to address parent and student access to information about college and planning ahead for college, especially for high-risk Hispanic/Latino families and students. Implemented in partnership with high schools, the Project Families4College (F4C) is intended to develop parent and student “college knowledge” through two-way streams of communication between the home and school to enhance college enrollment. F4C will immer...

At the time of this study, there were few interventions that specifically targeted developing comprehension skills among preschool children. In this project, the researchers examined the effectiveness of a preschool curriculum designed to bridge the vocabulary and comprehension gap that existed for many disadvantaged children. The curriculum integrated preschool and home learning, narrative and informational text, and word and world knowledge. At the conclusion of this project, the investiga...