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Smith, Kenneth J. – Gifted Child Today, 2014
Research suggests that experts and beginners use qualitatively different writing processes when given the same text to write. Throughout their writing, experts tend to create a network of executive, structural, and content problems that they continually refine and coordinate as they bring the text to fruition. Novices, in contrast, tend to focus…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Writing Processes, Elementary Education, Writing Skills
Doyle, John – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2006
In attempting to define postmodernism, many search for a "neat central core" (Beck, 1993) thus attempting to universalize all postmodern theories and operate "within the modern obsession with control and reason" (Slattery, 2000: 137). In this article, I refrain from attempting a universal definition, but instead present an exploration of the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education, Postmodernism

Flowers, Betty S. – Language Arts, 1981
Discusses the roles that writers must assume during the writing process and offers suggestions to help children prevent these roles from conflicting or interfering with each other during writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction

Giordano, Gerald – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984
Students may copy words while being incapable of communicating through writing, a deficiency which may be identified using three techniques for analyzing generative writing samples: (1) interpretation of cluster errors, (2) differentiation of linguistic disability from symptomatic frustration, and (3) use of word restoration exercises. Samples of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Learning Disabilities, Reprography

Glatthorn, Allan A. – Language Arts, 1982
Outlines the stages of the composing process, differentiating between those of skilled and unskilled writers. Provides a list of suggestions for elementary school writing instruction. (HTH)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Ziegler, Alan – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1982
Discusses length and speed, spontaneity, and discipline as the attributes that affect creative writing assignments, students' development as creative writers, and appropriate methods of teaching creative writing. (RL)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
Spanjer, Allan; Boiarski, Carolyn – Principal, 1983
Presents a nine-step program for reviving a school's teaching of writing, including gaining faculty participation, compiling a bibliography, getting participants' descriptions of effective methods of teaching writing, and having participants present workshops built on doing, looking at, and learning from their teaching methods. Provides a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Workshops, Teaching Methods

Rutherford, Leane H. – Social Studies, 1991
Suggests multisensory approaches to writing instruction. Explains how even pieces of candy can provide students with memorable lessons in writing. Encourages teachers to be creative in coming up with similar ideas of their own. (SG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Perception, Sensory Experience
Fiderer, Adele – 1993
This book has an easy-to-follow-format. It supports teachers through six workshops by sharing specific strategies, procedures, and materials that worked best for students and teachers in classroom writing workshops. The book discusses the routines that helped organize and support a workshop; and presents strategies for anecdotal record-keeping,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Evaluation
Fagin, Larry; Padgett, Ron – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1986
Discusses a teacher's experience writing poems with eight third and fifth graders pulled from their regular classrooms. Provides transcripts of the two poems written with the students. (SRT)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Poetry, Teacher Student Relationship

Spiegel, Dixie Lee – Reading Horizons, 1986
Presents desirable teaching behaviors that can help teachers provide effective instruction in writing and deal with all three stages of the composing process. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Role

Holbrook, Hilary Taylor – Language Arts, 1981
Surveys materials in the ERIC system supporting the theory that children have a natural inclination to write that teachers are not taking advantage of and that offer practical suggestions to encourage writing skills and interest. (HTH)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Elementary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods

Blake, Howard; Spennato, Nicholas A. – Language Arts, 1980
Describes a "directed writing activity" that teachers can use in developing writing sessions that consistently produce good results. Outlines six steps in the writing activity: prewriting, framing the writing assignment, writing the assignment, revising the draft, editing, and writing the final draft. (AEA)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)

Hennings, Dorothy Grant – Language Arts, 1981
Describes ways that word-processing computers can be used to teach writing and editing skills and related attitudes. Explores the advantages and disadvantages of using computers in writing programs, as well as some misconceptions about computers. (HTH)
Descriptors: Computers, Editing, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods

Graves, Donald H. – Language Arts, 1979
This fourth article in a series on the writing process describes one child's writing process and draws implications for teaching first grade writing. (DD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 1