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Writing and Reading Connections: Bridging Research and Practice
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Philippakos, Zoi A., Ed.; Graham, Steve, Ed. – Guilford Press, 2022
Writing skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Educating for a Just Society. The Forty-First Yearbook: A Double Blind Peer-Reviewed Publication of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers
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Babino, Alexandra, Ed.; Cossa, Nedra, Ed.; Araujo, Juan J., Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2019
The theme for the 62nd annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers was Educating for a Just Society. Connie Briggs, previous Program Chair, reminded us that, "Education has always been the foundation of a democratic nation. It is important that our students understand the principles upon which our nation was…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Social Justice, Arabs, Culture
Instruction in a Strategy for Compare-Contrast Writing
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi – Exceptional Children, 2010
Students learned a strategy for planning, writing, and evaluating compare-contrast essays. Instruction followed the principles of self-regulated strategy development, which aims to improve knowledge about writing, strategic writing processes, self-regulation, and motivation. Six adolescent students, 3 with learning disabilities in writing and 3…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Writing Processes
Process and Product: A Review of the Research on LD Children's Writing Skills.
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Lynch, Ellen M.; Jones, Sheila Dove – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The article reviews the research on composition and transcription writing skills conducted with elementary-aged learning-disabled students and published during the last five years. Conclusions are drawn concerning the influence of: text production method, specific interventions, text structure knowledge, word presentation form, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handwriting, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Instruction in Text Structure: Metacognitive Strategy Instruction for Literacy Development in Deaf Students.
Akamatsu, Carol Tane – A.C.E.H.I. Journal, 1988
Five deaf students, aged 11-12, participated in an instructional program using metacognitive strategies to teach summarization skills based on a knowledge of story structure. During intervention, the subjects' performance rose noticeably, and the level of performance was maintained in three subjects. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Intermediate Grades