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Direct linkChen, Peayton; Kuo, Rita; Chang, Maiga; Heh, Jia-Sheng – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2017
The research team has developed a web-based multiplayer trading card game to allow teachers choosing cards as rewards for students who actively participate in discussions and classroom activities as well as perform well in terms of doing assignments and writing exams or quizzes. In order to verify the effectiveness of the use of in-game cards as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Games, Computer Simulation
Peer reviewedPierce, Judy; Terry, Kay; Ferguson, Janice – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1997
Discusses how storytelling was used in a fifth-grade class as a tool for promoting literacy and language development by having children write and tell their own tales. Highlights the positive rewards for children. Includes suggestions and techniques for teachers to follow in their classrooms. (RS)
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes an activity used with a fifth-grade mathematics class in which students solved a problem and wrote a convincing argument to prove their solution made sense. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Download full textEdiger, Marlow – 1995
Rural school students need ample opportunities to engage in creative writing, particularly the writing of poetry. A student teacher and a cooperating teacher in a rural fifth-grade classroom (with 12 students) guided the students in the writing of limericks by starting out with couplets, then triplets, and then limericks. The teacher had clearly…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Avrich, Jane – Teachers and Writers, 1992
Describes a successful unit of study on poetry in a fifth grade class that ended with students each writing a sonnet as a final project. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Poetry
Griffin, Scarlett S. – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes a multicultural unit for fifth graders in which each students receives a prop, develops a character around it, and writes a sketch which is videotaped and critiqued. Describes how students' characters identify their differences and figure out how to get along. Notes that students' ongoing relationships with eighth-grade penpals provided…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education
Ruddell, Martha Rapp-Haggard – 1989
A study examined students' metacognitive response to ambiguous literacy tasks to determine the relationship between that response and academic achievement. Subjects were 11 students chosen from a fifth-grade classroom in a small, urban school serving a predominantly black, middle class neighborhood. Two literacy tasks were identified as ambiguous:…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Class Activities, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedFrancis, Joan – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1990
Describes an experiential learning activity in which a Connecticut fifth grade class designated a new holiday, Friendship Day, through an essay-writing contest. The class pursued legalizing the holiday through the state legislative process, and Friendship Day is now celebrated on the fourth Sunday in April in Connecticut. Shows how the class…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Class Activities, Elementary Education
