SBIR/STTR Research Award
The First 4,000 Words: Keys to Schools Success
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Education
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Seward Incorporated
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- errd080008
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The First 4,000 Words project will develop and test a multimedia system for ensuring that students in Grades 1-4 know the meanings of the 4,000 most frequently used English words when they hear them and see them in print and can pronounce them. The target population is English language learners, struggling readers, or children of poverty who have small vocabularies relative to their peers.
Technology keywords
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