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Download full textDuross, Christine; And Others – 1996
An action research project set out to increase students' writing fluency and investigate whether writing fluency varies as a function of writing prompts and directions given to students. Subjects were 62 students in a first-grade class, a second-grade class, and a fifth/sixth-grade Special Day class (all in this class are learning disabled) in a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Primary Education, Special Education, Writing Assignments
Keetley, Elizabeth D. – 1995
A study determined the effectiveness of using a computer word processor as compared to the traditional paper-and-pencil method for process story writing. Students in a first-grade classroom in the Mark Gardiner Hoyle Elementary School located in Swansea, Massachusetts, were randomly divided into a control group of 12 students and an experimental…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 1, Instructional Effectiveness
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
Collins, Linda – 1987
A study investigated what effect, if any, a planned program of writing activities had on reading comprehension. A group of second grade students from Linden Elementary School, West Virginia, were the subjects. Subjects were divided into a control (12 students) and an experimental (13 students) group. Both groups were given a pretest and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedKasten, 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
Peer reviewedReutzel, D. Ray; Fawson, Parker C. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes the development and use of the Traveling Tales backpack for engaging children and parents in home writing activities. Shares the experiences of one child and how his family became involved in helping him write a book. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Emergent Literacy, Learning Activities, Parent Influence
Lipa, Sally E. – 1989
A study evaluated the effectiveness of an Instructional Television Program (ITV) designed to model and teach aspects of process writing to second-grade children. Two second-grade teachers and their students (each class contained 24 children) comprised the experimental groups; one second-grade teacher and 24 students comprised the control group.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Films, Primary Education
Dyson, Anne Haas – 1994
A qualitative study, presented in the form of an analytical narrative, examined children's symbolic and social use of superhero stories--popular media stories that vividly reveal societal beliefs about power and gender, which are themselves interwoven in complex ways with race, class, and physical demeanor. A second-grade classroom in an East San…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Childrens Television, Class Activities, Discourse Analysis
Stewart, Margaret E.; Palcic, Ronald A. – 1992
A study examined the role of audience in preservice mathematics education students' writing experiences. Subjects, students in two mathematics education classes taught by the same teacher, completed writing assignments explaining the principles of mathematics to elementary school pupils. Students in one class wrote to actual students, serving as…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 3
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
The Writing to Read Program (WTR) objectives for 1988-89 included: to extend and support the implementation of the WTR program in New York City elementary schools; to promote the reading and writing achievement of kindergarten, first-, and second-grade students; and to introduce students in early childhood to computer technology. In 1988-89 the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children
