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Henry May; John Z. Strong; Sharon Walpole – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: In this study, we investigated the effects of a schoolwide program, Bookworms K-5 Reading and Writing, on student achievement. Method: The study included seven cohorts of students (N = 8,806) in grades 2-5 in 17 elementary schools across three school years. We used a comparative interrupted time-series design, conducting multilevel growth…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
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Hamman-Ortiz, Laura; Santiago Schwarz, Vanessa; Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly; Gort, Mileidis – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
This article reports on findings from the first year of a professional learning partnership aimed at supporting elementary teachers in improving their writing instruction for emergent bilingual students. Specifically, we present a case study of one fourth grade teacher's writing instruction, exploring how an introduction to a functional approach…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Writing Instruction, Bilingual Students, Faculty Development
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Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal; Leala Holcomb; Kelsey Spurgin – Grantee Submission, 2024
Writing is an essential element of literacy development, and language plays a central role in the composing process, including developing, organizing, and refining ideas. Language and writing are interconnected, making it paramount for educators to attend to the development of deaf students' language skills. In this quasi-experimental study, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Expressive Language, Language Skills
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Malova, Irina; Avalos, Mary A.; Gort, Mileidis – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
Integrated Reading-Writing Instruction (IRWI) is an approach for English Language Arts (ELA) instruction that has gained much attention since the adoption of college and career standards. Previous studies have shown that connecting reading and writing during instruction positively affects students' literacy outcomes as related cognitive processes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Language Arts
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Genç-Ersoy, Berrin; Göl-Dede, Derya – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
This study aims to improve the writing skills, motivation towards writing, and writing attitudes of elementary school students through educational games by eliminating the problems they encounter in the writing process. The study was designed within the scope of cooperative action research, and criterion sampling was used for the sample selection.…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Attitudes, Student Motivation, Educational Games
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Strong, John Z. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
The purpose of this mixed-methods experimental study was to investigate the effects and social validity of a text structure intervention for reading and writing in upper elementary grades. Fourth- and fifth-grade teachers (N = 11) in three elementary schools were randomly assigned to implement the text structure intervention or a comprehension…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Intervention, Grade 4, Grade 5
Lohmiller, Denise Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The primary purpose of this parallel mixed methods study was to discover the extent to which instructional coaches and third and fourth grade elementary teachers were impacted by participating in the instructional coaching model available on their campuses. A subsequent concern was to determine to what extent the writing practices of the teachers…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Writing Instruction, Grade 3, Grade 4
Andrew Timothy Medearis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two approaches to professional development methodologies implemented in public schools. A quantitative, correlational research design was employed to determine whether the academic success in the core content areas of reading, writing, math and science could…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Partnerships in Education, Educational Change, Best Practices
Jones, Errica Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This mixed methods study examined the significance of parental involvement and its influence on student productivity in writing. A total of 25 fourth grade students from one Texas suburban school, their parents, and three teachers participated in this study. Data collection instruments used for the collection of quantitative data were The Knudson…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Wells, Melissa Summer – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2021
High-quality field-based experiences are at the core of teacher preparation programs; however, the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited access to such placements for pre-service teachers. This descriptive study examined how virtual tutoring in a summer-semester intermediate literacy course impacted both pre-service teachers and students served.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Education Programs, Field Experience Programs
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Wissinger, Daniel R.; De La Paz, Susan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
This article reports the results from a study investigating the effects of a discipline-specific reading and writing intervention (I3C/PROVE IT!) with fourth and fifth graders. Participants included 237 students with writing difficulties (WD) from an initial pool of 608 upper elementary school students in a larger study. Teachers and students were…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Difficulties, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Nobel, Kerstin; Grünke, Matthias – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2020
Most students who struggle with writing have particular trouble with planning a text. They do not find themselves sufficiently able to generate content and organize the ideas they wish to address into a coherent order. STOP & LIST is a well-proven strategy that has the potential to help students mold an internal representation of the text in…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition)
Hebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet; Nelson, J. Ron; Roehling, Julia; Christensen, Kristin – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
Students with writing difficulties may have difficulty when writing informational text with source material due to (a) inexperience with such text and (b) difficulties reading and understanding source material. Teaching students to take notes related to informational text using text structures (e.g., description, compare/contrast) may help them…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Notetaking
Hebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Roehling, Julia; Christensen, Kristin – Grantee Submission, 2018
Students with writing difficulties may have difficulty when writing informational text with source material due to (a) inexperience with such text and (b) difficulties reading and understanding source material. Teaching students to take notes related to informational text using text structures (e.g., description, compare/contrast) may help them…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Notetaking
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Nicole Arshan; Cj Park; Allison Milby; Rebecca Goetz – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: College- and career-ready standards cite the "special place of argument writing" in preparing students to be college students, professionals, and engaged citizens in an information-rich society (NGA, 2010). To support these critical skills, the National Writing Project (NWP) developed the College, Career, and Community…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Students
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