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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"writing curriculum"”.
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An integrated reading/writing curriculum
This study develops an integrated reading/writing curriculum for the "new" college students. It is based on four assumptions. The first is that the reading of long, complete selections (books, speeches, essays) facilitates comprehension. The second is that the writing of at least three-hundred word …
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Embedding formative assessment in the writing curriculum
… assessment to enhance pupil learning in writing. Teachers were presented with a cognitive resource comprising formative assessment principles, strategies and techniques. They were asked to integrate this with existing practice in teaching and assessing writing and to reflect on the …
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Integrating technology into the 2nd grade writing curriculum
… 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 the computer, wrote while listening to classical music, and …
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Research, Rhetoric, and the Writing Curriculum: Consciousness Expansion Through Bi-Hemisphericity
This study gives implications for teaching composition based on current rhetorical and psychological theory. It examines what recent brain research has to say about left-hemispheric verbal skills and right-hemispheric imaginal skills. A survey of literary, philosophical, and rhetorical expressions …
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A fifth-grade narrative writing curriculum: a cognitive and psycholinguistic approach
… this study was to develop a theoretically-based writing curriculum for fifth-grade students that incorporated research related to writing instruction. Cognitive developmental and psycholinguistic theories were used as the theoretical foundation for the curriculum. The study utilized a unique …
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Toward a genre writing curriculum: Schooling genres in the Common Core State Standards
… established a set of expectations for student writing in K-12 education. In describing these expectations, the CCSS used three general “text type” classifications: Narrative, Informative/Explanatory, and Argumentative. While the CCSS outlines the general expectations for students writing in …
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Integrating online cooperative learning into the English as a foreign language writing curriculum: a modelling trial
… of cooperative learning (CL) into online EFL curriculum to facilitate learner interactions, bring about meaningful learning together and research its influence on learner writing proficiency. To be specific, it was to explore whether online cooperative learning (OCL) with elements of Social …
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The teacher, the writing curriculum and computers: Planning and practice in pedagogy in two second-grade classrooms
… and challenges of one classroom teacher during writing time in two second grade classrooms. The study looks at how this teacher planned for and implemented a writing curriculum in which computers played a role and what this teacher did in an attempt to influence children's development as …
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Continuous assessment within the writing curriculum : a classroom-based study of an alternative methodology for teaching writing in a second language context
… of alternative assessment practices on the writings of seven learners in a Grade 11 English second language class. Conventional assessment practices are inadequate when set against new knowledge of the role played by assessment in supporting learning and teaching. Presently writing and …
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Where East Meets West: Human Rights Education in Bulgaria
… This project focuses on developing creative writing curriculum based upon Human Rights Education (HRE) to provide U.S. teachers with foundational resources to teach Bulgarian students about human rights to build intercultural tolerance. It provides U.S. teachers in Bulgaria with a creative …
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Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities
My project, titled Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities, focuses on the integration of digital and multimodal literacies in first-year writing curricula. This dissertation situates itself among other scholarship in new literacies, such as the work of Gee, …
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Expansive Learning in FYC: Using Linguistic Discourse Analysis to Measure the Effects of Threshold Concepts in Facilitating Generalization
… using threshold concepts in FYC*s that take up writing studies as their curricula (Wardle and Downs, Dew). Even though using threshold concepts seems to be one interesting way of specifically studying expansive learning and generalization, we have no studies examining whether or not teaching …
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An exploratory investigation on how authentic writing affects students' attitudes towards writing
… 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 that was personal and meaningful. …
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Writing to act: developing activist writing curricula for LGBTQQIA community centers
… develops a theoretical framework that can inform curriculum designed for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Ally (LGBTQQIA) activist writing groups. The framework synthesizes scholarly and activist writing on queer pedagogy and community literacy and explores …
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Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study
Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study Lora Bower Candidate for Master of Science in Education The College at Brockport, State University of new York, 2014 Abstract This self-study is my attempt to determine how I could use Lucy …
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Elementary Teachers of Writing: Paths, Passions, and Practices
… of early elementary teachers related to writing, seeking relationships between their experiences and instructional practices. Data included a survey of 61 kindergarten, first, and second-grade teachers and two focus group interviews in a large urban district in the Midwest. Three major …
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The Richmond young writers’ project 1979-1984
… an innovative approach to the teaching of writing--the writing process. This study sought to determine why teachers participated in developing a new writing curriculum in their schools, what characteristics of the setting promoted these curriculum development practices, and what curriculum …
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The write rationale : teaching and assessing writing in English home language in the senior phase
The National Curriculum Statement is the most substantive document framing how English teachers are expected to teach writing in English Home Language in the Senior Phase. However, when its implicit pedagogy is evaluated according to what five decades of research and theory have confirmed as best …
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