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Direct linkJohn H. Bickford – Social Studies, 2024
Seventh-grade students engaged in a guided historical inquiry about slavery, freedom, and unfreedom. The teacher carefully intertwined historical content, close reading, critical thinking, and text-based writing -- both extemporaneous and refined-- during Social Studies. Students scrutinized primary sources to build their historical schemas over…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Social Studies, Inquiry, Historical Interpretation
Kent, Shawn C.; Wanzek, Jeanne – Review of Educational Research, 2016
Theories of writing development posit several component skills as necessary to the writing process. This meta-analysis synthesizes the literature on the correlation between these proposed component skills and writing outcomes. Specifically, in this study, we examine the bivariate relationships between handwriting fluency, spelling, reading, and…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Correlation, Writing Processes, Cognitive Processes
Download full textKent, Shawn; Wanzek, Jeanne – Grantee Submission, 2016
Theories of writing development posit several component skills as necessary to the writing process. This meta-analysis synthesizes the literature on the correlation between these proposed component skills and writing outcomes. Specifically, this study examines the bivariate relationship of handwriting fluency, spelling, reading, and oral language…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Correlation, Writing Processes, Cognitive Processes
Ryan, Mary – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Writing is a complex and learned activity in that it requires us to shape our thoughts into words and texts that are appropriate for the purpose, audience and medium of a variety of communicative forms. Writers must constantly make decisions about how to represent their subject matter and themselves through language. In this way, writing can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Writing, Student Writing Models, Educational Strategies
McGrail, Ewa; Davis, Anne – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
Blogs in classrooms represent a new approach to teaching writing that is developing and changing daily. Although some scholarly literature explores the use of blogs in educational settings, the blogs are primarily being used at the secondary and college levels. The purpose of this qualitative case study research was to explore how blogging…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Qualitative Research, Electronic Publishing, Writing Processes
Jarvey, Marya; McKeough, Anne; Pyryt, Michael C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2008
Trickster tales, with their teachings on how to behave in the world, are a powerful means for transmitting social knowledge and cultural mores to children. In this study we compared two approaches to teaching fourth-grade students to write trickster tales. Although both instructional methods incorporated aspects of the writing process approach,…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Tales, Process Approach (Writing), Cognitive Development
