"Looking south and east from the pioneer cemetery about two miles southeast of Spanish Fork, Utah, are the Spanish Fork River bottoms where my great grand father and others settled in 1850. My great grand father mentioned here is John Hardison...
& EUen, 175; wife visits, 202; came
to Cedar City, 228; 1865 visits Cedar, 254; letter from Henry, 259; presides at conference, 269; makes Henry a pamarch, 290, trip with B. Young, 293; death, 301 Smith, Jesse N. , 278; County Clerk, 287; S....
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Support from the
C. Charles Jackson Foundation
has made this publication possible
and contributed to the projects showcased on these pages.
Considerable appreciation is due to
Dr. Bruce H. Jackson
Executive Director
brucehjackson@ gma il.com
For...
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
his grandson Douglas R. McKay's testimonial, before departure to the Uruguayan Mission. Working with young men to prepare them for missions, and seeing the change in them when they returned, was an experience...
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1986, 93). Service learning is one of the ways in which we maximize the benefits that students
receive from our nation’s universities. However, in order for service-learning to be successful, it
is essential for three specific criteria to be...
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material, oral and silent reading, monitoring, and wide and repeated reading (Reutzel & Cooter,
2007). Fluency is often measured by the number of words read per minute. There are many
assessments to measure fluency, but one of the best known is...
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Vrongistinos, 2010). Schools must look for ways to increase involvement of parents of ESL
students (Olivos, 2009).
Hispanic parents have much to offer the educational system in the United States.
Espinosa (1995) referred to Hispanic parents as a...
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One of the co-authors of Treasures is Dr. Jana Echevarria, a professor of educational psychology
who specializes in bilingual education and is an expert in teaching ELLs. Echevarria (2005)
stated, “In order to tailor instruction appropriately,...
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Chapter 3
Methodology
The purpose of this thesis project was to determine if sending home kindergarten reading
homework through the SETHL would improve Hispanic kindergarten student scores on the
DIBELS and MAP assessments and improve Hispanic...
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control group that received no books from the SETHL. The groups were formed to be as
academically equal as possible using the most recent DIBELS scores. These study participants
were found in the 58 percent of kindergarten students who spoke...
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Chapter 3
Methodology
The purpose of this research project was to investigate whether the connection between
literacy achievement among English language learners (ELLs) from low socio-economic status
(SES) families and their home-literacy...
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The bilingual SETHL was formed by downloading and printing commercially available
books from Reading A-Z. These books are professionally-developed, leveled readers, and the
same books were available in both Spanish and English. Two of the...
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English language proficiency and literacy skills, and were based on a 5-point scale: pre-emergent
= 1, emergent = 2, intermediate = 3, advanced = 4, and fluent = 5.
Table 1
Student Participant Selection Based on CRT and UALPA Scores
CRT...
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Commercial Law. This course embraces a study of the laws governing the transaction of business in the world of commerce, including a knowledge of contracts, agency, partnership, corporations, business paper, liens,...
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service as clerks.
For those who wish to become teachers in our Spanish possessions such a course will be very valuable.
FRENCH.
Mr. DuPoncet.
French may be given for any who may wish...
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Procedures
The researcher formed three academically equal groups of students from the
kindergarten class based on the literacy ability of the students as shown on the mid-year DIBELS
assessment. These groups were formed, as closely as possible,...
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GERMAN
MR. DU PONCET
German 1. ELEMENTARY COURSE. The object of the first year's work is to familiarize the student with German construction so far as to enable him to read easy German text without difficulty....
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Parental surveys were used to determine their feelings associated with reading homework
that was sent home with the students. The same surveys were given to parents whose students
received the SETHL books in Spanish and English, English only, as...
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10. Implement the SETHL program for children and parents to share, and record time
spent reading. Monday through Thursday exchange SETHL books.
11. Periodically collect recording logs for later analysis and replace them with
consecutive...
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Table 2
Home Visit Comparison Chart
High-Literate ELL Home Visits Low-Literate ELL Home Visits
All families were nuclear. There were more single-parent families than
nuclear families.
At least one parent spoke both English and
Spanish...