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Emma Shanahan; Emily Reno; Brennan W. Chandler; Christina Novelli; Jechun An; Seohyeon Choi; Kristen L. McMaster – Grantee Submission, 2024
Although writing instruction can positively impact reading for students across grades and levels of literacy, the extent to which these findings generalize to young students with literacy difficulties is unclear due to the dynamic nature of reading-writing relations. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the effects of writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement
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Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal; Leala Holcomb; Kelsey Spurgin – Grantee Submission, 2024
Writing is an essential element of literacy development, and language plays a central role in the composing process, including developing, organizing, and refining ideas. Language and writing are interconnected, making it paramount for educators to attend to the development of deaf students' language skills. In this quasi-experimental study, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Expressive Language, Language Skills
Al Otaiba, Stephanie; McMaster, Kristen; Wanzek, Jeanne; Zaru, Mai W. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to describe what we know and what we still need to learn about literacy intervention for children who experience significant difficulties learning to read. We reviewed 14 meta-analyses and systematic reviews of experimental and quasi-experimental studies published in the last decade that examined the effects of reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia, Intervention
Park, Christina; Arshan, Nicole; Milby, Allison; Goetz, Rebecca – Grantee Submission, 2021
Developed by the National Writing Project (NWP), the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) seeks to improve students' argument writing by building teachers' understanding of and skill in teaching source-based argument writing. The program features intensive professional development, skill-based instructional resources, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Program Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
Kay Wijekumar; Karen R. Harris; Steve Graham; Pui-Wa Lei – Grantee Submission, 2022
A central goal of upper elementary schools is improving students' skills to write persuasively using source materials. This study focused on three essential areas of writing at the upper elementary grade levels. First, children learned skills to read and use source materials through the web-based intelligent tutoring system for the text structure…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Electronic Learning
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McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Roscoe, Rod D.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study investigated the effect of incorporating spelling and grammar checking tools within an automated writing tutoring system, Writing Pal. High school students (n = 119) wrote and revised six persuasive essays. After initial drafts, all students received formative feedback about writing strategies. Half of the participants were also given…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grammar, Automation, Writing Instruction
Piasta, Shayne B.; Farley, Kristin S.; Mauch, Susan A.; Soto Ramirez, Pamela; Schachter, Rachel E.; O'Connell, Ann A.; Justice, Laura M.; Spear, Caitlin F.; Weber-Mayrer, Melissa – Grantee Submission, 2019
Professional development (PD) is a potentially important mechanism for enhancing classroom practices and children's learning. In this large-scale randomized controlled trial, we examined the effectiveness of language and literacy PD, with and without coaching, offered at scale to early childhood educators (n = 546) across one state. Relative to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Literacy Education, Preschool Teachers, Coaching (Performance)
Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy – Grantee Submission, 2020
We use a novel database of the preservice apprenticeships ("student teaching placements") of teachers in Washington State to investigate the relationship between mentor effectiveness (as measured by value added) and the future effectiveness of their mentees. We find a strong, positive relationship between the effectiveness of a teacher's…
Descriptors: Mentors, Preservice Teachers, Correlation, Teacher Effectiveness
Hebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Roehling, Julia; Christensen, Kristin – Grantee Submission, 2018
Students with writing difficulties may have difficulty when writing informational text with source material due to (a) inexperience with such text and (b) difficulties reading and understanding source material. Teaching students to take notes related to informational text using text structures (e.g., description, compare/contrast) may help them…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Notetaking
McMaster, Kristen L.; Lembke, Erica S.; Shin, Jaehyun; Poch, Apryl; Smith, R. Alex; Jung, Pyung-Gang; Allen, Abigail A.; Wagner, Kyle – Grantee Submission, 2019
We examined the effects of a professional development (PD) system designed to support teachers' use of data-based instruction (DBI) to improve early writing outcomes for children with intensive needs. The PD system, called DBI-TLC, provided "tools" for early writing assessment and intervention, "learning modules" including…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Coker, David L, Jr.; Jennings, Austin S.; Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth; MacArthur, Charles A. – Grantee Submission, 2018
A substantial body of research has demonstrated the efficacy of early writing interventions that target skills and composing processes; however, much less is known about the effectiveness of classroom writing instruction outside of the context of an intervention. The goal of this study was to investigate if writing instruction and student practice…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Lembke, Erica S.; McMaster, Kristen L.; Smith, R. Alex; Allen, Abigail; Brandes, Dana; Wagner, Kyle – Grantee Submission, 2018
Few teachers receive adequate preparation to provide effective individualized instruction for children with intensive early writing needs. In this article, the authors describe an attempt to close this learning gap, by developing Data-Based Instruction-Tools, Learning, and Collaborative Support (DBI-TLC), a comprehensive professional development…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction, Writing Instruction, Data Use
Dostal, Hannah M.; Wolbers, Kimberly A. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Purpose: In this chapter we describe how a rubric-style observation instrument for observing classroom writing instruction was used to focus and optimize collaborative video analysis sessions among teachers and researchers spread across six states. As part of a 3-year Institute of Education Sciences (IES) development grant, we used videos of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reflection, Inservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development
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Roscoe, Rod D.; Snow, Erica L.; Brandon, Russell D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
The ability of educational games to promote students' engagement in learning and practice depends on perceived enjoyment of those games. This study investigated high school students' perceptions and enjoyment of games within the Writing Pal intelligent tutoring system. In accord with research on motivation, results showed that perceived…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems