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Bereiter, Carl; Scardamalia, Marlene – 1987
Aimed both at readers interested in cognition and/or writing and at instructional psychologists, this book explores the notion that various writing strategies involve different kinds of thinking, which ultimately affect the written product. The first part presents concepts central to the writing process, including two models of this process, an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Psychological Patterns
Wrobleski, Diane – 1985
Three different ways of integrating writing and thinking into the classroom are using double-entry notebooks, literature logs, and process journals. In a double-entry notebook, the writer takes notes on the reading, collects direct quotations, makes observational notes, and writes fragments, lists, and images on the left side of the notebook. On…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expository Writing, Language Processing, Literature Appreciation
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Pearce, Daniel L. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Discusses the use of holistic evaluation, the use of rubrics and checklists, peer evaluation, and small group peer evaluation as means of making writing evaluation effective while keeping the paper load manageable. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Grading, Language Processing, Secondary Education
King, Martha L. – 1988
Focusing on language development--from beginning speech to literacy--with particular attention paid to growth in writing, this paper identifies and describes: (1) links between speech and writing; and (2) features of children's written and spoken texts that indicate growth. The process of constructing "texts" is presented as the fabric…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
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Squire, James R. – Language Arts, 1983
Argues that composing and comprehending are process-oriented thinking skills that are basically interrelated, and suggests ways that these skills can be taught. (JL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement, Language Arts, Language Processing
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Moss, R. Kay – English Quarterly, 1986
Analyzes the written language learning of kindergarten children as a transaction among writers, teachers, and the writing process and concludes that children, when given the opportunity to take risks with written language, create with semantic intent. (DF)
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten Children, Language Arts, Language Processing
Buckley, Marilyn Hanf; Boyle, Owen – 1981
For use by teachers in helping students become better writers, this booklet describes and illustrates cognitive mapping, a prewriting technique that helps students combine their verbal and visual skills in order to produce ideas and to plan stories, plays, reports, or essays. The first section of the booklet discusses the interrelations between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Processing
Boloz, Sigmund A.; Loughrin, Patricia L. – 1984
The Shared Responsibility Model (SRM), a language process model that has been used effectively in classrooms that serve limited and proficient English speakers interacting within the same environment, can be utilized with Navajo children. SRM's philosophy recognizes that students learn and retain vocabulary most effectively when they: (1) learn…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Reading Material Selection
Geiger, William A., Jr. – 1983
Three universes of discourse are at work when writers create or use a metaphor: the analogical or metaphorical universe from which they borrow words, things, and relationships (sometimes called the "vehicle"); the contextual universe in which the analogy is being used (sometimes called the "topic"); and the metauniverse, or the comprehensive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Educational Theories
Neverow-Turk, Vara S.; Turk, David F. – 1986
Developed as a model for teachers faced with the task of assigning research papers to students who are still apprentice writers, this two-part paper explores the possibilities of written response that reside both in the dialogic interplay of ideas in utopian texts and in the criticism of utopian texts. The first part examines some ideas contained…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing, Literary Criticism
Van Dongen, Richard – Insights into Open Education, 1986
The focus of this paper is on how children use print, or literate language, in school and how teachers can respond and work with children. Beginning with a literature review, the paper discusses language use and literate language development in young children, pointing out that children construct their experiences through using language, and that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Bull, Geoff; Gollasch, Fred, Ed. – 1986
Focusing on talk as the vehicle through which the reading and writing processes can become more interactive and can more closely approach the processes of learning, the lessons presented in this booklet provide examples of how teachers can construct learning strategies to help children "talk their way into meaning" against a framework of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Learning Processes
Britton, James; Pradl, Gordon M., Ed. – 1982
Spaning 30 years, the essays in this collection present variations on the theme of how, through language and social interaction, humans evolve increasingly more accurate maps of their worlds. The six essays in the first section, "Literature and the Shaping of Experience," point to a central concern for literature as a fundamental way of knowing…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Higher Education
Morino, Hiroaki – 1998
Two key parallels exist between reading and writing, each with profound implications for the teaching of these skills, and which can be adapted for the situation in Japanese high schools, where reading and writing classes are separate. First, on a theoretical level, writing and reading are cognitively similar in that they are both active and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Educational Needs
Duke, Charles R. – 1984
Music education is uniquely suited to reinforce several basic skills that are part of the overall reading and writing processes of students. These skills include freedom of expression and the fluency of ideas, identifying a composer's purpose and message, and reasoning and comprehension. Musicians should develop the habit of using journals for…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking
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