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Pennington, Robert C.; Foreman, Lindsay Hugg; Gurney, Beth Newberry – Remedial and Special Education, 2018
In the current study, we investigated the effects of an instructional package (i.e., response prompting, sentence frames) on sentence writing for three middle school participants (ages 12-13) with moderate to severe disabilities. We employed a multiple probe across behaviors design to evaluate the efficacy of the intervention package and also used…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Intervention, Sentences, Writing Skills
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Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Correnti, Richard; Wang, Elaine – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
The Common Core State Standards emphasize students writing analytically in response to texts. Questions remain about the nature of instruction that develops students' text-based writing skills. In the present study, we examined the role that writing task quality plays in students' mastery of analytic text-based writing. Text-based writing tasks…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Assignments, Task Analysis, Writing (Composition)
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Cole, Merryn; Wilhelm, Jennifer; Yang, Hongwei – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Relationships between sixth grade students' moon journaling and students' spatial-scientific reasoning after implementation of an Earth/Space unit were examined. Teachers used the project-based Realistic Explorations in Astronomical Learning curriculum. We used a regression model to analyze the relationship between the students' Lunar Phases…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Astronomy, Science Education, Spatial Ability
Craig, David James – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the relationship between fifth-grade students' out-ofschool reading habits and measures of their reading comprehension and writing abilities. The sample was composed of forty-two students attending an urban school in Northeastern Massachusetts. Each morning, for fifteen consecutive weeks, students recorded an approximation of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits, Writing Ability, Elementary School Students