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Michael Hebert; Pamela Bazis; Janet J. Bohaty; Julia Roehling; J. Ron Nelson – Grantee Submission, 2021
Expository writing may be especially difficult for elementary grade students due to lack of background knowledge and unfamiliar text structures. A text structure writing intervention aimed at teaching students to write informational text using text structures has been shown to have promise for improving the informational text writing of upper…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Writing Instruction, Expository Writing
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Michael Hebert; Pamela Bazis; Janet J. Bohaty; Julia V. Roehling; J. Ron Nelson – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Expository writing may be especially difficult for elementary grade students due to lack of background knowledge and unfamiliar text structures. A text structure writing intervention aimed at teaching students to write informational text using text structures has been shown to have promise for improving the informational text writing of upper…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Writing Instruction, Expository Writing
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Strong, John Z. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
The purpose of this mixed-methods experimental study was to investigate the effects and social validity of a text structure intervention for reading and writing in upper elementary grades. Fourth- and fifth-grade teachers (N = 11) in three elementary schools were randomly assigned to implement the text structure intervention or a comprehension…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Intervention, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Turcotte, Catherine; Caron, Pier-Olivier – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
This study conducted with French-speaking students living near Montréal, Canada, assess if teaching the shared knowledge between reading and writing of informative texts improves reading comprehension in fourth grade (9-10 years old) to a greater extent than teaching that separates reading and writing. Teachers participating in the experiment…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Comprehension
Hebert, Michael; Bohaty, Janet J.; Nelson, J. Ron; Roehling, Julia – Grantee Submission, 2018
Informational text writing is a complex task requiring multiple literacy skills, such as reading and comprehending source material, identifying important information, and transforming ideas to meet the goals for the new writing task. The "Structures Writing" intervention was developed to improve the informational text writing skills of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Intervention, Writing Skills, Elementary School Students