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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Composition (Language arts)"”.
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The Effect of Mode of Instruction on Composition I Students at Des Moines Area Community College
… and writing theory point to the social nature of language and indicate the need for linking these activities in useful ways. This project is a way of determining if a socially situated writing pedagogy is a fuller way of representing language than a process pedagogy in a Composition One class. The …
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The impact of using mentor texts and the writing workshop with first grade writers
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact that using mentor texts in conjunction with the writing workshop would have on struggling first grade writers. A group of eight first grade students participated in the study. The participants had varying writing ability levels. During the …
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An exploratory investigation on how authentic writing affects students' attitudes towards writing
The purpose of this research study was to determine how students' attitudes towards writing are affected when authentic writing activities are implemented into the traditional writing curriculum. The students kept Lifebooks for a period of three weeks and there was an emphasis placed on writing …
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Integrating technology into the 2nd grade writing curriculum
<p>This action research study was conducted to examine the effects of integrating technology into the second-grade writing curriculum. The second grade class was in a middle class suburban town and consisted of 23 children. Students composed a type written fairy tale, created <em>I Am</em> poems on …
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How does playful active learning motivate students to write and affect performance in writing?
<p>This study examines students' writing and how educators can motivate students to write. The problem that this study attempts to examine is the effect that motivation has on student writing. This study used teaching methods that incorporate active learning and guided play into the curriculum. …
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"I don't care how I write, as long as I get a good grade!": using self-evaluations to shift student motivation and improve writing quality
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine what happened when self-evaluations were used to improve the writing quality, motivation, and self-efficacy of students in a fourth grade class. Participants included a class sample of 16 students, ages 9-10 years old (8-female, 8-male). Students were …
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Student perceptions regarding the use of rubrics in writing assignments
… a scoring rubric that includes important parts of the assignment and a number scale to further weigh the importance. The students were a part of creating the rubric and were given the rubric prior to their writing assignment. During the assignment I observed how the students use their …
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Teaching expressive writing to high school students with learning disabilities using direct instruction, self-regulation, and computer-assisted instruction
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects on a combination of Direct Instruction (DI), self-regulation strategies, and computer-assisted writing instruction for high school students with learning disabilities (LD). Five students with LD participated in the study. A multiple baseline …
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Using dialogue journals to foster a student-teacher relationship in the elementary classroom
The purpose of this study was to implement dialogue journals into a fourth grade classroom to find out if they fostered a relationship between the teacher and students. Over the course of five weeks, students were each given a journal in which he/she would correspond with me. As a class, topics to …
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Effects of specific instructional practices on independent writing of learning-disabled students
… students serviced in a replacement language arts special education setting. Qualitative data was collected through pre and post interviews with teacher and student participants. Student writing samples were also assessed for sentence structure and support using the Educational …
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What happens when writing notebooks are used in a first grade classroom?
The purpose of this research study was to investigate what happened when writing notebooks are implemented in a first-grade regular education classroom. Writing notebooks were used along with the Writer's Workshop curriculum in which students learned how to revise, edit, and use professional …
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Effect of hands-on approach to editing and revising process on student self-evaluation of personal skills
<p>The writing process is a series of four stages: prewriting, writing, editing and revising, and publishing. This action research project focuses on the editing and revising stage. The purpose of the study was to determine if the inclusion of a hands-on approach to editing and revising positively …
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Implementing literature circles in a fourth grade classroom
<p>This action research project looked at the effects on twenty-one fourth grade students' levels of comprehension, engagement, and writing when literature circles were implemented while reading the novel <em>Jacob's Rescue</em>, by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin. The participants, twelve …
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Exploring our options: cooperative rhetorical alternatives and their implications for teaching first-year composition
… of rhetorical options presented to first-year composition students, primarily in textbooks and writing handbooks, is unnecessarily limited. Given the abundance and variety of discursive encounters students are likely to have, not only in college but especially as members of a highly diverse …
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Helping struggling writers through self-regulated strategy development
<p>The purposes of this action research was to determine the effectiveness of implementing a self-regulated strategy development model to teach a story writing strategy to three 3<sup>rd</sup> grade students at a New Jersey Elementary School. This study involved a comparison of stories written by …
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Motivating kindergarteners to write in a half-day setting
<p>This research spawned from the observation of two half-day classes of kindergarten students at an elementary school in southern New Jersey. Being urged to write not only their first and last names but also letters, words, and even beginning sentences by the end of the year is a major requirement …
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The effects of implementing heterogeneous writing groups in a fifth grade classroom
The purpose of this study was to examine how heterogeneous grouping, particularly in writing, would impact the learning and social community in a fifth grade inclusion classroom. The students were given writing prompts that enforced the use of collaborative writing. Qualitative data was collected …
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