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Direct linkDanielle N. Murray – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students in the United States are struggling to show proficient comprehension in reading, with only 35% of the nation's fourth graders scoring proficient or higher on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2019. Since the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices &…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, 21st Century Skills, Grade 4, Grade 5
Henning, John E. – Educational Studies, 2020
The purpose of the study was to investigate differences in writers' abilities to perceive global text organisation in self-, peer- and teacher/researcher-authored essays. Eight student participants were identified as proficient, middle or developing, based on the levels of paragraph subordination, the average number of T-Units and the number of…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Reading Strategies, Writing Skills
Download full textSpycher, Pamela – WestEd, 2021
Reading critically involves examining the language choices authors make to "get the job done" -- in other words, to communicate effectively in specific ways with particular audiences. Not all students in middle and high school intuit this type of reading and may experience challenges when they go to write for academic purposes. Their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Instruction
Peer reviewedRowan, Katherine E. – English Quarterly, 1990
Offers a definition of explanatory text, and summarizes research on why abstract concepts and principles are difficult for lay readers to understand. Describes a three-week unit for composition classes on spotting difficult ideas, diagnosing the type of difficulty they pose, and selecting the text features most likely to make them less difficult.…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Writing Relationship
Peer reviewedDickson, Shirley – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Proposes an instructional approach for teaching compare-contrast composition within a social studies context. Notes dimensions of this approach (based on research involving students with and without learning difficulties) concern text structure, writing process, and integrated reading and writing. Presents examples of lesson plans and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Activities, Lesson Plans
Peer reviewedArmbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1989
Explains the details of a method of teaching text structure that proved successful in improving both reading comprehension and summary writing of fifth graders. Reports that students quickly learned how to attend to and remember main ideas from problem-solution passages in their textbooks and how to write summaries. (MG)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Readability
Rosebery, Ann S.; And Others – 1989
While young children's problem-solving models are not as elaborate as those of older students, they share an important belief, namely, that writing and reading are fundamentally purposeful acts of communication. Focusing on the interpretation of process, in particular on writing and reading as forms of problem-solving that are shaped by…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
