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Latham, Dorothy – 2002
This book outlines the processes involved when children learn to write, and it shows how certain strategies can improve children's progress in writing. Dealing with the age range 3-13, the book addresses issues of the gender gap, children with English as an additional language, and left-handedness. It includes ideas for assessment of writing. It…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, British National Curriculum, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
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Andriessen, Jerry E. B. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Presents a study in which children considered alternative continuations of a text through a computer program. Reports that subjects were to monitor text production and correct coherence problems. Discusses reason levels: (1) implicit, local reasoning; (2) attention to global text characteristics; and (3) considerations on the function of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
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McGuire, Margit E.; Noe, Katherine L. Schlick – International Journal of Social Education, 1993
Asserts that social studies is an integrated field of study that calls for organizing the curriculum in a holistic manner. Maintains that the whole-language movement, which involves thinking about reading and writing as integrated, reciprocal processes, forms a natural partnership with social studies instruction. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education