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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"struggling writers"”.
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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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A Secondary English Teacher's Use of New Literacies with Voice and Struggling Writers
Voice is an integral part of writing instruction, and over half of state writing assessments include voice on scoring rubrics; yet, there is a dearth of research on voice and writing instruction with adolescents. Increasingly new literacies and digital tools are being used in the high school …
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Supporting Writing Skills in the Common Core State Standards for Students in Grades 3-5 with Executive Functioning and Learning Difficulties: A Teacher’s Toolkit
<p>Poor writers do not display the skills and strategies employed by skilled writers. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) set forth an expectation that all children will become skilled writers; yet, for most students with executive functioning weakness and/or learning disabilities, writing is …
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Literacy choice in a first grade classroom
… strengths and weaknesses became more apparent. Struggling writers were able to showcase their creative side and their storytelling abilities through choice activities while adept writers struggled to invent their own writing topics.</p>
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An editing framework guiding students toward self-correcting errors in writing
… to turn it in without looking back. Furthermore, struggling writers often do not know where to begin analyzing their work for improvement. This study measures the success of a structured activity that makes editing a more concrete process. It focuses on five freshmen in a Resource Language Arts …
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What Happens When Struggling Readers and Writers Produce and Read Their own Scripted Stories?
… is an attempt to determine what happens when struggling readers and writers produce and read their own scripted stories. The purpose of the study was to take a successful method of supporting struggling readers; reader's theater, and integrate student created scripts to see if reader's theater …
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Self-regulated strategy development: a cognitive strategies approach to persuasive writing
… instruction in the use cognitive strategies struggling writers can become proficient in the creation of persuasive compositions.</p>
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Writing Self-Efficacy of Elementary Students With Learning Disabilities
… to writing instruction and interventions for struggling writers. Future research might consider the role of additional sociodemographic and motivational variables and extend the present study to additional student populations.
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The Effects of a Student-Centered Approach to Spelling Instruction that Incorporates the Multiple Intelligences
… Five third grade students who were identified as struggling writers provided usable data for this study. The students recognized their individual need to develop and increase their spelling knowledge as they made personal goals to improve their spelling skills. Students were introduced to a number …
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Understanding the Use of Graphic Novels to Support the Writing Skills of a Struggling Writer
… on the handwritten and typed output of a struggling male writer during his 5 <super>th </super> through 7 <super>th </super> grades who has undergone a longitudinal remedial phase of two and a half years creating text-only material as well as graphic novels (on paper, on the computer, and …