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Holbein, Marie F. Doan; Bristor, Valerie J.; Yahya, Noorchaya – Reading Horizons, 2001
Explores the effectiveness of using television and video to motivate student writing. Describes how, following a series of motivational and brainstorming sessions using television, video, and popular literature, 23 fifth-grade students wrote and videotaped dramatizations of short "teaser" scripts in cooperative groups. Notes that these…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Group Activities, Intermediate Grades, Popular Culture

Hay, Louise – Computers in the Schools, 1997
Describes a grant-funded project that used technology to adapt the same instructional materials for 240 fourth-grade students by using captioned video scripts at different reading levels to provide individualization. A multiple-choice quiz of comprehension and vocabulary-related questions was developed as an assessment tool. Student reactions…
Descriptors: Captions, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 4, Individualized Instruction