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Teachers' Support and Pupils' Writing Strategies in a Networked Elementary-School Learning Environment Integrating a Blog
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Thériault, Pascale; Allaire, Stéphane; Gagnon, Vincent – McGill Journal of Education, 2017
Although the affective dimension of writing is important and well documented, we know less about how teachers and students are making use of the blog in classrooms to advance specifically cognitive goals connected to writing. It is with this in mind that a case study was carried out to closely document the effect of classroom blogs on the…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Diaries, Web Sites, Elementary School Students
Summary of Recommendation 3 from the WWC Practice Guide "Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers"
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Nebraska Department of Education, 2012
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers," offers educators four specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenge of teaching writing in elementary school. This summary focuses on the third of the four recommendations: Teach students to become…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Using Simultaneous Prompting and Computer-Assisted Instruction to Teach Story Writing to Students with Autism
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Pennington, Robert C.; Ault, Melinda Jones; Schuster, John W.; Sanders, Ann – Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits, 2011
In the current study, the researchers evaluated the effects of simultaneous prompting and computer-assisted instruction on the story-writing responses of 3 males with autism, 7 to 10 ears of age. Classroom teachers conducted all probe and training sessions. The researchers used a multiple baseline across participants design to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Prompting, Training, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Interactive Whiteboards and Talking Books: A New Approach to Teaching Children to Write?
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Sheena Martin – Literacy, 2007
This article presents work undertaken with a class of Scottish Primary Six children (aged 10) to investigate the use of interactive whiteboard technology and interactive talking books in whole-class writing lessons. The paper reports on a research project with three aims: to investigate how the use of an interactive whiteboard to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Writing Instruction
Implementing Handheld Computers as Tools for First-Grade Writers
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Kuhlman, Wilma D.; Danielson, Kathy Everts; Campbell, Elizabeth J.; Topp, Neal W. – Computers in the Schools, 2006
All humans use objects in their environment as tools for actions. Some tools are more useful than others for certain people and populations. This paper describes how different first-graders used handheld computers as tools when writing. While all 17 children in the observed classroom were competent users of their handheld computers, their use of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Computer Uses in Education, Competence, Writing Processes
Teaching New Literacies in Grades K-3: Resources for 21st-Century Classrooms
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Moss, Barbara, Ed.; Lapp, Diane, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2009
Even the youngest readers and writers in today's classrooms can benefit enormously from engagement with a wide range of traditional and nontraditional texts. This teacher-friendly handbook is packed with creative strategies for introducing K-3 students to fiction, poetry, and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling;…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, High Stakes Tests, Visual Aids, Biographies