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Isaacson, Stephen; Mattoon, Cynthia Burt – Learning Disabilities Research, 1990
Forty-two inner city intermediate-grade learning-disabled students wrote fables when provided with the following stimuli: story starter, story ending with story content, and story ending with rhetorical purpose. The story ending groups did more story development planning than the story starter group, but composition quality was not significantly…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Fables, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities

Lachs, Vivi; Wiliam, Dylan – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1998
Two studies compared the process of authoring non-linear or linear stories with HyperCard by inner-city primary school students. Found that, with minimal support, primary school students were capable of constructing hypermedia stories with complex non-linear structures and that the use of non-linear structures appeared to encourage the integration…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Hypermedia