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David Alan Smith – English Journal, 2015
This article examines the influence of context on student writing and discusses how the author used one methodology, problem-based learning, to foster more contextualized writing practice in ninth-grade English classes. Both research and practical experience suggest that students can benefit from writing practice contextualized within specific,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, English Instruction, Grade 9, Writing Instruction
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Johnson, Betty Kuhn – English Journal, 1990
Describes nine prewriting activities using supermarket tabloids as the model for producing a newspaper on mythology. (RS)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Mythology, Newspapers
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Rock, JoAnn Leah – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
In this study, a hierarchical linear model (HLM) was used within a cluster random assignment design to test the impact of "Criterion"? on students' writing skill when "Criterion" was used as a supplementary instructional tool in ninth grade English classrooms over a 4 week period. The study was conducted in three states:…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Teaching Methods, Grade 9, English Instruction
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Antzoulis, Vasiliki – English Journal, 2003
Student teaching in New York City on September 11, 2001, forced the author to scrap her carefully planned lessons. Instead, she designed a unit to address the urgent needs of the ninth graders in her care. In this article, the author describes the poetry unit she designed to help students deal with the grieving process and allow them a way to talk…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teaching, Writing Assignments, Grief
Dale, Helen – 1997
A study examined the effects of coauthoring, also referred to as collaborative writing, on student learning. Subjects were 24 students in a ninth-grade English class. Data were collected over the first 9-week quarter of the year. Eight collaborative writing triads were formed with a primary criteria in establishing heterogeneous groups in gender,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Planning