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Ukrainetz, Teresa A., Ed. – PRO-ED, Inc., 2015
"School-Age Language Intervention: Evidence-based Practices" explains how to teach the language and literacy skills, strategies, and underlying processes needed for educational success. This book brings together an array of experts to provide the latest practical and evidence-based guidance to school speech-language pathologists.…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Language Acquisition, Intervention
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Zamel, Vivian – TESOL Quarterly, 1980
Suggests that for improving syntactic fluency and the overall quality of compositions, exercises should be based on generative rhetoric. These exercises in which students supply the content of the sentence from a list of suggested structures are superior to sentence-combining exercises that provide the student with all the information. (PMJ)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation, Grammar, Second Language Instruction
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Johnson, Doris J.; Grant, James O. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1989
Writing samples of 295 primary school children improved in productivity, syntax, and level of abstraction from grade one through three. The writing of learning-disabled children who were matched with average reading ability primary-school children indicated no significant differences in productivity, but problems in syntax (especially morphology),…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities, Morphology (Languages)
Hoy, Cheri A.; Gregg, K. Noel – 1984
The fourth of seven booklets on adults with learning disabilities, this manual examines the assessment and remediation of written language problems. Spelling assessment activities are described, including lists of questions designed to investigate auditory skills, tactile skills, and visual skills. Also considered is assessment of punctuation,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Evaluation Methods
Goodman, Yetta M.; Wilde, Sandra – 1985
Focusing on children's production of written language, a two-year study, conducted on the Oodham (Papago) Indian Reservation in Arizona, explored social context, linguistic systems, and the creation of meaning as aspects of the writing process. Ten American Indian children in third and fourth grade provided over 200 stories that formed the basic…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Child Development, Cultural Background, Elementary Education
Hurst, Marietta; And Others – 1983
A program to be used by teachers working with children at the stage of emergent writing, generally kindergarten and grades 1 and 2, and based on recognition of young children's development, is outlined. The project operates on the premise that children can independently learn to write by writing if they are immersed in the appropriate social and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Child Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Developmental Stages