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Download full textJenkins, Linda – 1994
A study explored the connection between reading and writing by examining the writing produced by three young readers of action comic books. The subjects were in grades four and five in a British Columbia (Canada) school and were identified by a survey as being avid comic book readers. During three writing sessions, they were asked to produce…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comics (Publications), Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades
Codling, Rose Marie; And Others – 1996
A study investigated the writing motivation of 145 third- and fifth-grade students. Because self-perceived competence and task value interact in important ways to influence an individual's motivation, these two constructs were used as the basis for measuring children's motivation to write. Students responded to the Motivation to Write Scale (MWS),…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Grade 3
