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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Writing instruction"”.
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Elementary Writing Instruction Using Picture Books
<p>Writing instruction is an important component of elementary education. This study investigated the effectiveness of the Trait Crate™ writing program in a 5th grade classroom. The program uses picture books to teach each of the six traits of writing. The traits are: ideas, organization, voice, …
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Faculty development and support for computer-assisted writing instruction
… composition teachers utilizing computer-assisted writing instruction (CAWI), English departments have only recently begun to systematically address the faculty development needs of these teachers. Other fields such as adult education and staff development have begun applying theory and research to …
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PEDAGOGICAL AND CULTURAL PHENOMENA OF ON-DEMAND WRITING INSTRUCTION
… new avenues of measuring student progress using writing as the main vehicle to assess content and communication skills. Unfortunately, the majority of Kentucky's high schools showed little improvement in this tested area with only 34% of high schools reaching proficiency in the past twenty years …
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Understanding Community and Engagement in Synchronous Online Writing Instruction
… the author's experiences as a synchronous online writing instructor. Using the current literature on synchronous writing instruction—as well as interviews with fellow instructors—this project explores how we define and measure classroom community and engagement from behind a webcam. </p>
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Writing Instruction: Students' Perceptions of Its Meaning and Merit
… and weaker writers with regard to previous writing instruction; perceptions of writing assignments; writing strategies; valuing of writing; and benefits of feedback from conferences, peer evaluations, and written comments.
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If Not Grammar, What?--Taking Remedial Writing Instruction Seriously
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Lesson Study: Developing a Knowledge Base for Elementary Writing Instruction
<p>Concern about students' writing skills has led to recommendations that elementary teachers receive more professional development in how to teach writing (National Commission on Writing, 2006). However, there is currently little evidence about the knowledge teachers need to teach writing well, …
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Stories About Writing (Centers): Sites of Innovation in (Online) Writing Instruction
… dissertation I study the University of Houston Writing Center (UHWC) as a site for innovative writing instruction while simultaneously critiquing business-model approaches to the teaching of writing. Using the Writing Center as a microcosm for the larger issues affecting writing pedagogy, I …
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Beyond Interference: L1 Transfer in English Writing Instruction for Thai Student
The findings of the two error analyses were used to develop a framework for a pedagogical grammar explicating differences between Thai/English semantic space via the concepts of contrastive mapping and contrastive examples. The study concluded with an exploration of next steps for further …
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Tensions, negotiations, and practice: The complexity of writing instruction in bilingual classrooms.
… negotiations, and practice: The complexity of writing instruction in bilingual classrooms.
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Explicit Writing Instruction: Effects on Sixth Grade Students’ Writing and Reading Achievement
… study was to examine the effect of explicit writing instruction on sixth grade students' writing growth and achievement as measured by holistic and analytic assessment. This research responds directly to the need for additional research on effective reading and writing instruction (Langer & …
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Writing Instruction in Practice: An Investigation into the Experiences of Beginning Teachers
… call for different approaches in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Some of these changes include increasing expectations for writing proficiency in K-12 settings and new accountability measures for teacher education programs. Yet, writing methods are often overlooked in preservice …
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Queering Composition: A Language for LGBTQIA+ Perspectives in First-Year Writing Instruction
… that queerness has a history with the field of writing composition and that this history can shape modern composition through a specific lexicon containing the terms <em>derivative, originative, Rogerian, rhetorical failure, </em>and<em> master narratives. </em>To provide evidence for this, I …
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Writing Instruction for English Language Learners: Teacher Beliefs, Writing Tasks, and Methods
The study suggests that writing instruction for ELLs might include an optimal balance of opportunities for developing both writing competence and writing performance. Such balanced writing instruction may be represented through offering transcription-oriented and composition-oriented writing …
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CLASSROOM DISCOURSE OF ELEMENTARY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ WRITING INSTRUCTION IN A MIDWESTERN SCHOOL
… the discourse of English Language Learners’ writing instruction in a third and fifth grade classroom. Indiana has experienced great growth in the population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the past ten years, with this school district sharing a similar trend with an increase of the …
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Sponsoring Educational Opportunity: Race, Racism, and Writing Instruction at the University of Illinois
… in which elite groups have employed literacy instruction to preserve economic and/or political power and privilege. However, as a number of recent scholars suggest, much less is presently known about the means by which elites have employed literacy instruction to preserve and promote the power …
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An Investigation of the Effects of Writing Instruction in an Ungraded Informal Learning Environment
… was to investigate and describe the teaching of writing in an informal setting through the voices of teachers and students. The intent of this study was to describe the roles of teachers and students in this learning environment and specifically to describe the role of writing response groups in …
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Teachers Adapting Common Core Informational-text Writing Instruction for Students With Mild to Moderate Disabilities
… now become skilled at using different types of writing to help them critique text and process information. They also are required to write informational text. Informational-text writing is challenging for students with mild to moderate disabilities, including students with language-learning …
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