Education Week: Studies Find Students Learn More by 'Acting Out' Text - 0 views
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elementary mathematics students who acted out text in word problems were more accurate and less distracted than those who didn’t.
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Embodied, or grounded, cognition posits that meaning in language comes when words or phrases are mentally mapped onto memories of real experiences and perceptions.
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When we as readers are thinking about what we’re reading, we are embodying it even if we aren’t literally moving our arms. We are calling upon our experiences,”