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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Children's Writing"”.
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Promoting Children's Writing for Publication
… emphasis of this project was a description of a writing program "Promoting Children's Writing for Publication" as it evolved at Grass Lake Elementary School, Kent School District, Kent, Washington.
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Research and lesson plans on children's writing.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Changes in Children's Writing on Multiple Tasks, Grades 1-5
Thesis (Educat.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987.
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Storytelling and spelling : what is happening when parents support their young children's writing at home?
… is a key factor in the early development of children’s literacy, especially during the early years phase. As part of literacy, writing is regarded by educationists and employers as a crucial foundational academic skill. Despite its importance and complexity, the guidance accessed by parents …
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Analysis of Syntactic Maturity By Grade Level and Sex of Children's Writing Samples Submitted to the 1983 Young Authors Conference
… investigator studied the syntactic maturity of writing samples provided by children at different grade levels and by sex of the author. The sample of the study consisted of two hundred forty-four prose manuscripts submitted to the 1983 Young Authors Conference at Southwest Missouri State …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… use in their formally assessed and informal writing. The theoretical framework used in this study reviews literature on discourse/language and literacy as social practice, language ideologies and identity, heteroglossic and translingual practices, as well as primary school children's writing …
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Social and Cultural Capital Across Contexts: Mandarin-Speaking English Language Learning Children's First and Second Language Literacy Learning at Home, in the Community, and in Multiple Classrooms
… and giving constructive feedback on the ELL children's writing. In contrast, the 4th grade and 5th grade mainstream teachers' literacy practices fell into the misconceptions reported by researchers. Another implication concerns in-service teachers' professional development, which assists them …
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Teaching Text Structure to Elementary Students: A Comparison of Two Methods Across Four Genres
… of two instructional methods on the teaching of writing: (1) providing specific text structures, and (2) having students themselves develop a text structure that they think is most appropriate for the given situation. The two methods were compared among four genres: the personal narrative, the …
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The Investigation of Writing Topic, Type and Style Choices of the 1981 Southwest Missouri State University Young Authors
… between the choice of topic, type and style in children's writing and grade levels. The sample of the study consisted of 84 students in grades one through six in southwest Missouri whose manuscripts were selected for the 1981 Young Authors' Conference at Southwest Missouri State University. …
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Influence on the Creativity of Children's Poetry Writing
… study tested the hypothesis that creativity in children's writing will be significantly higher (p< .05) when, prior to writing a poem, children are presented a socially-induced intrinsic motivational orientation than when presented an extrinsic motivational orientation. Eighty sixth grade …
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A study of the modes of imagination
… study had its origins in the consideration of children's writing and their responses to reading it explores in a wider context the nature of imagination and its relation to the discursive. Within imagination there seem to be three modes that are frequently conflated - fantasy, identification …
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The Development of Taiwanese Children's Ability to Infer Orthographic Information From Semantic and Phonological Information
This study explored whether Taiwanese children adopt metalinguistic principles to help their reading and writing development in Chinese, a non-alphabetic language. The relationship between the acquisition of phoneme-grapheme correspondence and reading ability has been well-established for …
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Learning across time and text: ten child writers in the years from first grade to middle and high school
… or experience. Drawing on case studies of ten children's writing practices across the years from grade one to middle and high school, this study examines literacy development from the perspective of the learner: as a stream of experiences unfolding across time and space. Rather than limiting …
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The impact of a training program in phonological awareness on children's early writing
… in phonological awareness had on the early writing skills of children in a Grade One class in the Lincoln County Separate school system. The intent of the training program was to provide consistent and systematic practice in the manipulation of the phonological structure of language. The …
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A comparison of fifth-graders' oral and written stories
Prior research in children's writing (Sawkins, 1971; Graves, 1973 and 1981; Calkins, 1980, and Giacobbe, 1982) has not offered a comprehensive analysis of both oral and written stories. My study, therefore, identified and analyzed the differences between eighteen fifth-graders' oral and written …
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WHAT IS THE NATURE AND PROCESS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING?
Over the last ten years my thinking and writing have been concerned with the nature and process of effective teaching and learning. Although I have tried to present my thinking as a chronological sequence much of the work developed concurrently. Over the period covered by my publications my …