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Pfotenhauer, Virginia – Childhood Education, 1982
A fifth-grade school teacher discusses the usefulness of brainstorming as a prewriting activity and illustrates how she used this activity with her students. (MP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Prewriting, Teaching Methods
McKenzie, Robert G.; Roit, Marsha L. – Academic Therapy, 1988
As an orientation to the actual composition process, learning-disabled students should be taught methods for the development and organization of ideas. Strategies are presented for helping learning-disabled students improve composition skills by improving flexibility in vocabulary and sentence structure and by planning and sequencing ideas and/or…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Prewriting, Sentence Structure
Polloway, Edward A.; Decker, Thomas W. – 1988
Written language skills are an important goal within programs of language development for students with mental disabilities. Specific facets should be considered in the teaching of writing, such as drawing on previous linguistic experiences, viewing writing as both process and product, emphasizing writing as a form of communication, tying writing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Mental Retardation, Prewriting

Whittaker, Catharine R.; Salend, Spencer J. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1991
This article describes a variety of collaborative writing strategies that teachers can use within the four subprocesses of writing (prewriting, drafting, revising, and publishing). The strategies include, among others, brainstorming, semantic maps, directed reading and writing, discussion tests, editing groups, and group efforts in layout and…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities

Arthur, Becky; Zell, Nancy – Preventing School Failure, 1990
This paper describes the WRITE UP strategy for helping emotionally disturbed students overcome fears of creative writing, organize their thoughts and improve their writing skills. The writing process is covered from subject selection and brainstorming through composition to editing and the final draft, with grading seen as a teaching tool. (PB)
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Emotional Disturbances, Prewriting, Secondary Education
Karolides, Nicholas J., Ed. – Wisconsin English Journal, 1984
The articles in this journal issue provide a rationale and methods for enhancing students' critical awareness of visual media and for a process approach to composition instruction. The titles of the articles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Reel English: Film Study in the High Schools" (James Griswold); (2) "Introducing History Media"…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Olson, Carol Booth, Ed. – 1987
A collaborative effort on the part of teachers from and consultants for the University of California, Irvine/California Writing Project, this guide presents ideas for teaching writing as a process at all levels of the curriculum. Each section of the guide presents an essay introducing the section topic, followed by practical ideas for teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
Flinn, Jane Zeni, Ed. – 1981
The articles in this volume were written by teachers with an average of 15 years experience teaching writing from the primary grades through college. Each article is the fruition of one to three years work with students and teachers after a summer institute. The authors of the articles discuss such topics as (1) personal experiences as a teacher…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Styles