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Rachel Schechter; Rumeysa Yucel – Online Submission, 2024
The insufficient focus on developing writing instruction in education is a significant problem. Despite the crucial link between writing and reading skills and their impact on academic and life success, there is a notable lack of emphasis on writing in schools. Writing A-Z is a digital-first program that helps teachers establish a writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Processes, Writing Assignments
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) incorporates challenging literacy standards into middle grades and high school content areas within a variety of academic disciplines, not just English/language arts courses. The Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) provides schools with instructional tools needed to help teachers understand and implement…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Literacy, Mathematics Education, Educational Strategies
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Bowie, Jennifer – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2012
The practical, "how-to" companion to the more theoretically-oriented webtext in the Topoi section, Podcasting in a Writing Class? similarly provides a hypertext and series of podcasts--this time focusing on the construction and implementation of podcast assignments for writing courses. (Contains 7 tables.)
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, Writing Assignments, Program Implementation
Mogahed, Mogahed M. – Online Submission, 2011
Learners occasionally complain that they lack ideas when sitting down to write a composition. Teachers complain that they do not want to spend half the class time telling students what to write. There is an answer. Teachers brainstorm words connected with the topic in class before setting the composition for homework. The question remains: how to…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Student Participation, Brainstorming, Process Approach (Writing)
Gallagher, Kelly – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how…
Descriptors: Mentors, Writing Skills, English Teachers, Writing Instruction
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Gibbons, Scott – English Journal, 2010
The wiki is an excellent tool for student collaboration and teacher assessment. Students' comfort with online social networking makes the wiki a perfect forum for students to coauthor works and to respond to each other's writing. In this article, the author discusses how to use a wiki to promote discussion and aid students with writing. He tested…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Social Networks, Educational Practices, Technology Uses in Education
Richards, Janet C.; Lassonde, Cynthia A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students' self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Cues, Writing Strategies, Form Classes (Languages)
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Cutcher, Cortney L., Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Homework, Creativity, Test Results