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Beyond Drill and Practice: Process Writing in a One Computer Second Grade Classroom through a Variety of Writing Activities.

Weisberg, Lillian – 1991

This practicum was aimed at increasing children's abilities to use the computer through word processing activities. Most of the activities involved children working in cooperative groups. Another objective of the practicum was to incorporate the computer into the language arts area. A third objective was to effectively use a single computer beyond…

Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Grade 2

Using Directed Writing Strategies To Teach Students Writing Skills in Middle Grades Language Arts.

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DeFoe, Marguerite Corbitt – 2000

This practicum was designed to use directed writing strategies to teach writing skills to middle grades language arts students who frequently failed to make average or above scores in essay writing assignments. The program included three specific strategies. The first strategy was to teach higher-order thinking and metacognitive strategies related…

Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Arts

Improve Quantity and Quality of Student Writing through the Implementation of Telecommunications and Process Writing Activities between Fifth and Sixth Grade Students.

Norris, Dolores J. – 1990

A writing program was developed and implemented, using available technology, to increase the quality and the quantity of written communication of three heterogeneously grouped classes of fifth graders. The students learned to use the word processor, Magic Slate II, for process writing assignments. A modem, Supra Modem 2400, and Proterm software…

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, Grade 5