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Download full textSherman, Janice – Insights into Open Education, 1989
This paper examines children's preferences and understanding of stories and story elements by analyzing an extensive collection of art, writing, and teacher observations of one child, Virginia. The paper traces the progession of Virginia's understanding of character, setting, action/plot, and preference for fairy tale structures as evidenced in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Randolph, Linda; Robertson, Karen – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Discusses beginning writing activities that teachers can use with young children. Notes that preschoolers use writing systems that include drawings, scribblings, letterlike forms, words, and invented spelling. Suggests that teachers can use functional writing projects, such as greeting cards, lists, journals, address books, and pen pals, to…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Early Childhood Education
Paley, Vivian Gussin – 1989
The classroom setting is a source for daily and creative writing material for teachers as well as students. Teacher and student writing samples help to illustrate classrooms as cultures-in-the-making in which new rules are invented every day and suggest that stories of classroom life must of necessity end in question marks and untied threads.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Sprunk, William A., Jr. – 1990
Plain talk is the cornerstone for creating a classroom atmosphere in which students want to learn to improve their writing. As much as possible, the jargon and technical terminology of the profession of English should be eliminated. Teachers will know what level of language to use if they determine the nature of their audience. Teachers have to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Environment, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning
Michaels, Sarah; Bruce, Bertram – 1989
This report argues for and illustrates an approach to the study of writing in school settings that integrates ethnographic analysis of classroom interaction with linguistic analysis of written texts and teacher/student conversational exchanges. The report explores the relationships among classroom contexts, computer-based innovations, writing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Computer Assisted Instruction
Research Implications for Science and Mathematics Teachers. Volume 1. Key Centre Monograph Number 5.
Fraser, Barry J., Ed. – 1993
This document was compiled to help keep science and mathematics teachers in Australia abreast of the results of important research endeavors in education. The monograph is divided into 12 chapters. Chapter one, "Exemplary Science and Mathematics Teachers," (Barry Fraser and Kenneth Tobin) describes a study focusing on examples of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Demonstration Programs, Diagrams
