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Wang, Elaine; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Correnti, Richard – Reading Teacher, 2017
Supporting upper elementary students' higher level (i.e., analytic) thinking about texts in writing is a challenge for many teachers, in large part because what it means to analyze text is not well defined and because this skill is a relatively new expectation in elementary grades. In this article, the authors clarify the goal of three common…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi – Exceptional Children, 2010
Students learned a strategy for planning, writing, and evaluating compare-contrast essays. Instruction followed the principles of self-regulated strategy development, which aims to improve knowledge about writing, strategic writing processes, self-regulation, and motivation. Six adolescent students, 3 with learning disabilities in writing and 3…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Writing Processes

Zammuner, Vanda Lucia – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Presents an Italian study of children assigned to write two persuasive appeals for funds. Reports that improvement on the second request was related to request features demonstrated between the two assignments. Concludes that training did have some effect, but both control and experimental groups improved in their second performances. (DK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries