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Creating Joint Attentional Frames and Pointing to Evidence in the Reading and Writing Process
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Unger, John A.; Liu, Rong; Scullion, Vicki A. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
This theory-into-practice paper integrates Tomasello's concept of Joint Attentional Frames and well-known ideas related to the work of Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky, with more recent ideas from social semiotics. Classroom procedures for incorporating student-created Joint Attentional Frames into literacy lessons are explained by links to…
Descriptors: Attention, Evidence, Reading Processes, Writing Processes
Improving Student Writing. Idea Paper No. 25.
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Smit, David W. – 1991
It is maintained in this paper that the "crisis" in writing is more a function of instructors' attitudes and expectations than a result of how students actually write. There are various reasons to question the crisis, for example: while the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)--the most careful test of writing ability…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Processes
Data Processing: Memories are Made of This.
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Elwell, William C. – Clearing House, 1985
Describes activities designed to help students think critically and to accurately process information. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Writing...A Tool for Learning.
Michaels, Greta – Minnesota Council for the Social Studies Newsletter, 1983
Addressing the concern that writing assignments are used only for recording or relating information, a program called "Writing in Content Areas" has been developed in Minnesota to help students and teachers use writing as a tool for learning. Students are encouraged to use expressive writing for working out ideas, relationships, understandings,…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Teachers and Writers: Articles from the Ohio Writing Project.
Hayes, Mary F., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Prepared by classroom teachers, the papers in this collection combine practical knowledge with recent findings from writing research. Among the topics discussed in the 25 papers are (1) student teacher conferences, (2) using poetry to develop writing fluency, (3) writing as a learning process, (4) oral and written discourse, (5) creative dramatics…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
Writing to Learn. Second Edition.
Howard, James – 1983
Stressing that learning to write is learning to think, a series of workshops showed teachers in the content area how to use writing in their classrooms. Following a brief introduction to the program, workshop participants developed eight guidelines for creating effective writing assignments: (1) make all assignments worthwhile, (2) make them…
Descriptors: Assignments, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
Collected Papers in Teaching English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education: Themes, Practices, Viewpoints.
Light, Richard L., Ed.; Osman, Alice H., Ed. – 1978
This volume contains the following papers: (1) "Linguistics, TESOL, and Bilingual Education: An Overview," by J.E. Alatis; (2) "TESOL: Meeting a Social Need," by M. Galvan; (3) "Bilingual Education, TESL, and Ethnicity in New York State," by E.B. Nyquist; (4) "Control, Initiative, and the Whole Learner," by…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication