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Peer reviewedMadian, Jon – Educational Leadership, 1986
Outlines how word processing programs can be used to create flexible programs for teaching reading and writing skills. Describes two curriculum development projects in the U.S. Department of Education Basic Skills Program that used word processing to develop an integrated language arts program. (MD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Reading Instruction
Richards, Meredith – Instructor, 1985
Language arts skills and writing projects can be combined with activities that teach the fundamentals of word processing to improve the language arts curriculum. Suggested lessons cover five writing and editing operations common to most word processing software. (DF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Boone, Randy, Ed. – 1989
This collection of articles focuses on the use of word processing software programs as instructional tools for students learning writing composition. Section 1 discusses the use of word processors as a composition tools within the process model of writing instruction and includes articles entitled "Should Students Use Spelling Checkers?,""A Recipe…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Keyboarding (Data Entry)
Grevstad, Eric – InCider, 1986
Creative uses of Apple II microcomputers in classrooms are described. Projects involved topics ranging across the curriculum, with many involving writing and most using AppleWorks software. (MNS)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction
Download full textMorrow, Jean – 1990
This 64-item bibliography focuses on the effect of keyboarding on middle school students' composition writing, using word processing. The bibliography (which surveys selections dating from 1956 through 1989) includes those studies describing the feasibility of teaching touch typing keyboarding skills to middle school students, the value of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Holistic Evaluation, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Moeller, Babette – News from the Center for Children and Technology and the Center for Technology in Education, 1993
Current efforts to improve literacy teaching and learning are directed at replacing task-oriented approaches to teaching isolated skills with an integrated language arts curriculum, focusing on the cognitive and social processes the learner engages in to write. This new approach requires fundamental changes in the classroom, and computer-based…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Databases, Educational Technology
Thompson, Diane P. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1987
Describes how a community college has adapted an instructional computer network originally developed to teach hearing impaired individuals to write. It is now used as an integral part of three different writing courses. Discusses how the system works, providing examples of student work, and a description of the software used. (TW)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedReed, W. Michael – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1996
Reviews the research on computer use in English language arts, predominantly writing, since 1987. Highlights include writing-process theory; learner control theory; zone of proximal development; word processing; composing process software; the Writing to Read program; and future research and directions. Contains 93 references. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education, English
Baer, Vicki E. – 1987
A "cultural and informational exchange" between two Maryland middle schools allowed two groups of gifted students to accomplish several learning objectives while discovering new regions of their state and nurturing new acquaintances. Computers were central to the program--all information was created using word processing programs, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Computer Networks, Experiential Learning, Geography
