Strategies used in the writing process by fourth grade students were studied by eliciting miscues in sentence combining writing samples. Following the procedure used by Goodman in the elicitation of miscues in reading, students were required to perform writing exercises slightly above their expected ability. Writing samples were collected from 9…

Fourth grade students' miscues occurring in signaled sentence combining exercises were compared with their reading miscues in a study relating cognitive style to miscue analysis of reading and writing. The records of 16 students were used, with reflective students and impulsive students so designated on the basis of their miscues per one-hundred…

In order to understand more fully how young people process written language, miscues made by fourth grade students in both the reading process and the writing process were studied. Miscues which occurred in signaled sentence combining exercises were compared with miscues in reading determined by procedures developed by Goodman and associates. The…

Writing miscues of three Hispanic children were compared to those of their classmates in this study. Miscues were obtained through samples of writing taken from difficult sentence combining exercises. Results of the comparison suggested that the Hispanic American children did not make writing miscues that were qualitatively different from those of…

Research on the effects of two modes of sentence combining instruction on writing skills was conducted from 22 September through 17 December 1976, at Evans School in Tempe, Arizona. Subjects were 40 students in two fifth grade classes designated the individualized class and the group class. The individualized class followed a sentence combining…