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Hartman, Douglas Keith – 1986
A study measured the effects that direct instruction in narrative text structure using a story map (called "macrostruction") had on the comprehension of average and above average sixth-grade readers. A 2 x 2 x 2 repeated measures design was used with time, text, and treatment as the independent variables. The number of story grammar idea…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Narration
Download full textNorth Central Regional Educational Lab., Oak Brook, IL. – 2002
Researchers have found that readers they described as "strategic" had a purpose for reading, that they monitored their comprehension as they read, and they reflected on their reading. Although most readers have grasped fundamental reading processes by age 12, they still do not have well-articulated concepts about effective strategies to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intermediate Grades, Metacognition, Middle Schools
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1997
Encouraging teachers to utilize procedures and techniques that help their students become active, willing lifelong readers, this handbook has been compiled to serve as a guide for integrating the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment's (PSSA) definition of reading as a dynamic, interactive process into classroom practice. The handbook…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Isaacson, Stephen; Mattoon, Cynthia Burt – Learning Disabilities Research, 1990
Forty-two inner city intermediate-grade learning-disabled students wrote fables when provided with the following stimuli: story starter, story ending with story content, and story ending with rhetorical purpose. The story ending groups did more story development planning than the story starter group, but composition quality was not significantly…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Fables, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedBristor, Valerie J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1993
This article suggests ways that teachers can use videotape recordings to improve listening skills and enhance text structure instruction in the intermediate grades. Students develop story maps for narrative videos and texts and create organizational pattern guides for expository videos and texts. Lists of suggested videos and children's books are…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Mapping, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
Department for Education and Skills, London (England). – 2002
This booklet contains examples of units of work for teaching children in Year 6 as part of the National Literacy Strategy. The seven units are drawn from all three terms in Year 6. Some of the units were written for the Year 6 Exemplification booklets in 2001-2002 and are reproduced in this publication with supplementary resources and/or guidance.…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Drama, Educational Objectives, Grade 6
Department for Education and Employment, London (England). – 2001
The eight units of work in this document are designed to complement existing literacy booster units. Each unit is based on teaching objectives from the National Literacy Strategy Framework. They have been produced with the help of Year 5 teachers and have been trialled with pupils in a range of schools. The units support teachers' work with Year 5…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Childrens Literature, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
