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Batchelor, Katherine E.; King, April – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
This article shares two National Writing Project Teacher Consultants' interest in examining student engagement in writing flash fiction using mentor texts. Our two-week unit centered on two high school freshmen classes (one class identified as "at-risk" and another class identified as "college prep"), and we found the use…
Descriptors: Consultants, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Learner Engagement
Wolsey, Thomas DeVere; Lapp, Diane; Fisher, Douglas – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
Academic writing is a mainstay of expression in secondary schools. However, many students think of academic writing in terms of local operations that include spelling, punctuation, use of third person, and so on. Teachers may expect mastery of local operations, but often they want students to navigate the terrain of the content area or discipline…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Spelling
Olson, Carol Booth; Land, Robert; Anselmi, Thelma; AuBuchon, Charlie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Members of a site of the California Writing Project conducted the study in this article in partnership with a large, urban, low-SES school district where 93% of the students speak English as a second language and 69% are designated Limited English Proficient. Over an eight-year period, a relatively stable group of 55 secondary teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Essays, Limited English Speaking