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Marble-Flint, Karissa J.; Brown, Baylee L. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2023
An 11-year-old U.S. fifth grader with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) participated in a writing intervention using the self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) approach for story writing. The child summarized stories adapted from the Read Works® website using POW (Pick my idea, Organize my notes, and Write and say more) and WWW,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Females, Writing Strategies
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Ögulmus, Kürsat; Melekoglu, Macid Ayhan – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
Since specific learning disabilities (SLD) are widely observed among students with special needs, it is considered in the high-incidence disabilities category of special education. Students with SLD experience academic problems in reading, writing and mathematics, and difficulty in written expression is among their prominent characteristics. The…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Writing Skills, Skill Development
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Vander Hart, Nanho; Power, Mara – Preventing School Failure, 2022
The effect of writing strategy instruction on three middle school students' narrative writing performance in actual classrooms was investigated. The results indicated that the writing strategy instruction improved writing performance of students with and without disabilities, as well as students who were English language learners when provided…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
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Grünke, Matthias – World Journal of Education, 2018
Good writing skills are vital to success in school and, later, in the workplace. However, many elementary and secondary students fail to invest sufficient time and effort in planning what they want to write and, consequently, produce texts of inferior quality. One approach to help struggling children and adolescents acquire effective writing…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Program Effectiveness, Grade 5, Brainstorming
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Tsiriotakis, Ioanna K.; Spiliotopoulos, Valia; Grünke, Matthias; Kokolakis, Costas – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
In the present study, a quasi-experimental pre-post test design was used to assess the effects of an argumentative writing strategy (POW+TREE) on the performance of grade five and six students of Greek origin who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in a Greek setting. The Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) cognitive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Strategies, Grade 5
Houston Independent School District, 2018
Strategic Reading and Writing (SRW) is a reading and writing intervention course available to sixth- through tenth-grade students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) who did not meet Grade Level standards on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) grades 3-8 reading the previous school year or who fell below the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Intervention, Reading Strategies
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Cook, Kathleen B.; Bennett, Katie E. – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
Proficiency in writing increases opportunities in higher education, employment, and social relationships. Many students in the United States, however, are struggling writers. In particular, the writing performance of students with disabilities in secondary grades continues to lag behind grade level peers. The purpose of this article was to review…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Intervention, High School Students
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McClellan, Michael; Myelle-Watson, Dawn; Peters, Brad; Spears, Debora; Wellen, David – Across the Disciplines, 2012
To teach science writing effectively, scholars encourage combining writing to learn with applications of the science writing heuristic. How teachers learn to do so remains under-examined. This essay follows a cohort of ninth-grade science teachers who collaborated in a project to develop, test, and revise such a combination of writing prompts for…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Science Education, Grade 9, Science Teachers
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Milford, Todd; Harrison, Gina L. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2010
A critical focus of effective writing interventions is to help students develop a more sophisticated approach to composing, one that is similar in design to those used by skilled writers. After studying the skills and approaches used by effective writers, Harris and Graham designed the self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) approach as an…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Writing (Composition), Intervention, Learning Disabilities