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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Writing Workshop"”.
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Portfolio talk in a sixth-grade writing workshop
… how sixth-grade students talk about their writing and their writing portfolios in a natural setting. A qualitative approach was used in the study. Through interviews, classroom observations, and analysis of site artifacts, I studied four female sixth graders’ talk in the context of a …
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Instructing preschool writers : interactive writing and the writing workshop
Preschool children hold immense writing potential that is rarely realized in traditional classrooms. This mixed-methods, quasi-experimental study focused on how best to teach these emergent writers. By comparing the effects of interactive writing, writing workshop, and traditional instruction, the …
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Writing workshop and creativity despite standardization: An exploration of elementary teachers' practices
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The impact of using mentor texts and the writing workshop with first grade writers
… 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 study, the students were provided writing instruction …
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The Writing Workshop : Eighth Grade Girls' Self-Reported Attitudes Toward Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, and Writing Competency
… were surveyed regarding attitudes toward the writing workshop experience in the fall of 1999 and the spring of 2000. Survey data, collected from forced-choice and open-ended items, included comparison to the American Association of University Women's (1990) study, attitudes related to the …
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A case study of writing skills growth of three eighth-grade students in a writing workshop classroom
Writing samples were collected over an eight month period from three 8th grade students. Using these samples along with student-teacher conference notes and the results of a literacy interview, the writing growth of each student was analyzed. Each student shows development of strong writing skills …
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"I love discussing my work": a case study examining the use of discourse by eighth-grade students in writing workshop
… the effect of discourse and oral rehearsal of writing on the progress of eighth-grade writers in the workshop model of writing instruction. Through my position of teacher-researcher, I observed three randomly chosen students to determine how learning academic discourse and orally rehearsing …
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"All My Life I've Been Using Microsoft Word!": Incorporating Kidspiration, Power Point and Word into a Second Grade Writing Workshop
… Microsoft Power Point and Kidspiration into writing workshop influenced the writing processes and abilities of my second graders. They were provided with an open-ended writing project and had the opportunity to decide which computer program would be the most effective for presenting their …
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Do Students in the Fifth-Grade Benefit from the Writing Workshop with Regard to their Scores on the New York State Fifth-Grade Writing Test?
… in classrooms today with regards to teaching writing. A traditional approach to teaching writing might include using a grammar textbook and/or a workbook. A holistic approach to teaching writing believes that students learn to write by writing. Students move through the entire writing process, …
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The Effectiveness of the Writing Workshop Model to Teach an English-as-a-Second-Language College Writing Course in Puerto Rico: a Look at Students' Outcomes
… was designed to look at the effectiveness of the Writing Workshop model in improving English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) college students' writing skills in a small liberal arts university in Puerto Rico.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> Students registered in two Intermediate English-as-a-Second-Language …
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Building Student Development Through Creative Writing Workshops
… academic and career development through creative writing workshops. The focus on the facilitators of the creative writing workshops is to explore the perceptions, beliefs, and values they have regarding the theories they use to inform their curriculum, and, therefore, how they promote student …
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Word Study Instruction and its Impact on Students' Writing in Third Grade
… and students transferring that knowledge into writing. My research question is: How does word study impact students' strategies in word construction in writing workshop for third graders identifying words in isolation below grade level?
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Personality and Collaboration in the College Composition Classroom
… demonstrates the importance of collaborative writing in the college composition classroom. It incorporates personality theory as a means of studying writing processes, in addition to its use as a means of placing students into collaborative writing workshop groups. Ethnographic and …
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Writer's Workshop in Kindergarten: A Study of Writing Mechanics, Attitudes, and Behaviors
… study was to explore the impact of the writer's workshop approach in a kindergarten classroom, given the confines of Reading First. The goal was to use this information to more effectively assist kindergarten students in developing their writing skills. This study was designed to highlight the …
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A Procedure for the Development of A Content Valid Selection Examination for Parks and Recreation Directors in the State of Illinois
… An expert panel was then engaged in an item writing workshop and prepared test items appropriately sampling each job content domain. The test items were then submitted to three sequential review processes including a supervisory panel review, editorial review, and an expert panel review. …
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A study of peer tutor training programs and a peer tutor training program for Drake University
For many years universities and colleges have had writing workshops for creative writers. However, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, college and university administrators and department heads moved to establish workshops for remedial writers. Two things precipitated this movement: one, writing …
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Deconstructing Language Ideologies with Self-Reflective Writing in an EFL Classroom in Haiti: A Critical Discourse Analysis Case Study
… data collected from a critical self-reflective writing workshop series within an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in The Republic of Haiti. This Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) case study investigates 7 students’ critical self-reflection writing to uncover language-related …
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