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Petersen, Douglas B.; Staskowski, Maureen; Spencer, Trina D.; Foster, Matthew E.; Brough, Mollie Paige – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the effects of a multitiered system of language support (MTSLS) on kindergarteners' narrative retelling, personal stories, writing, and expository language. Method: Participants were 686 kindergarten students from four school districts in the United States. Twenty-eight…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Narration
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van Silfhout, Gerdineke; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; Sanders, Ted – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Many young readers fail to construct a proper mental text representation, often due to a lack of higher-order skills such as making integrative and inferential links. In an eye-tracking experiment among 141 Dutch eighth graders, we tested whether coherence markers (moreover, after, because) improve students' online processing and their off-line…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Grade 8
Haven, Mary Jo; And Others – 1987
In order to facilitate the decentralization of the Illinois writing assessment program, this handbook describes and provides materials for writing assessment training workshops. The first of the nine sections in the handbook gives a general overview of the Illinois Writing Assessment. The second section, on training for assessment, describes…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing, Holistic Evaluation