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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

White, Brian F. – Journal of Educational Research, 1995
This study investigated the effects of autobiographical writing before reading on ninth graders' discussion and understanding of two short stories. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of audiotaped class discussion revealed that students who had written about relevant personal experience before reading were more substantively engaged in…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Comprehension, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 9