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Peery, Rebecca – 1996
A study determined the effect of shared writing activities on reading comprehension. The subjects, 40 second- and third-grade students from a suburban school in Mercer County, West Virginia, completed the Reading Comprehension Subtest of the Comprehension Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) for grade 2 as a pretest. A control group of 20 students were…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension

Kasten, Wendy C. – English Quarterly, 1990
Focuses on the oral language that accompanies the writing process of Native American students. Finds that of all the oral language observed during composing, 90 percent of that language was related to the fact that writing was taking place. (MG)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Ethnography, Grade 3