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Direct linkKullberg, Nina; Kiili, Carita; Bråten, Ivar; González-Ibáñez, Roberto; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
This study examined students' ability to select relevant ideas from multiple online texts and integrate those ideas in their written products. Students (N = 162) used a web-based platform to complete an online inquiry task in which they read three texts presenting different perspectives on computer gaming and wrote an article for a school magazine…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Writing (Composition), Reader Text Relationship
Stansell, Alicia; Quintanilla, Brenda; Zimmerman, Ellen; Tyler-Wood, Tandra – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This article describes the background and experiences of three graduate students who co-authored a print-based transmedia book during the summer of 2013. The article provides information about why the transmedia engineering book was designed and provides an overview of the book's creation process. The project was funded through a National…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Concept Teaching, Middle Schools, Graduate Students
Pytash, Kristine E.; Morgan, Denise N. – Middle School Journal (J3), 2013
In this article, the authors provide an overview of the unit of study framework for teaching writing and explain how it sets the stage for developing "academic momentum" in students (Strahan, 2008, p. 4). To help readers understand the unit of study framework in action, the authors describe how a unit unfolds in one subject area,…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Writing Instruction, Units of Study
Johnston, Jim – Voices from the Middle, 2011
In the summer of 2009, this author devised a Saturday program with an emphasis on writing for publication targeting three students as his nucleus. One of the students, Mariano, was the only one of the three to accept the invitation. This was a strong indication of his passion for writing. Thus, three weeks before school began, the author and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Reading Skills, Student Writing Models, Writing for Publication
Sheryl Lain – Voices from the Middle, 2007
Students who engage in the writing process learn to write. Period. And yet many teachers, including Lain when she was a beginning teacher, don't know how to make the time for it, how to structure it, and how to evaluate it. Here, Lain offers us the help we need by focusing on the teaching tools for introducing students to this format, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Poetry, Writing Workshops, Writing Processes
