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Marianthi Oikonomakou; Dimitrios Kokkinos; Anthippi Potolia – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
This research focuses on the impact of language autobiographies in promoting multilingualism practices and fostering the cultivation of respect towards linguistic and cultural diversity at educational contexts. It aims at investigating how language autobiographies, as a reflective practice, promote the development of students' critical linguistic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Autobiographies, Multilingualism, Preservice Teacher Education
Demirbag, Mehmet; Kingir, Sevgi; Çepni, Salih – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between prospective teachers' belief systems and writing-to-learn. The participants comprised eight freshmen from the Department of Elementary Science Education at a public university in Turkey. The data were collected using semi-structured interviews.The results indicated that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Elementary Education
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Ryan, Mary – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Writing is a complex and learned activity in that it requires us to shape our thoughts into words and texts that are appropriate for the purpose, audience and medium of a variety of communicative forms. Writers must constantly make decisions about how to represent their subject matter and themselves through language. In this way, writing can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Writing, Student Writing Models, Educational Strategies
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Laman, Tasha Tropp – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
Over the past 30 years, writing workshops have been implemented in classrooms around the world. Students are being asked to write across multiple contexts and genres and to use digital technologies. At the same time, high-stakes writing tests are increasing even though the time teachers spend teaching writing is decreasing. This study examines…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Writing Workshops, Grade 4, Writing Instruction
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Smith, Kenneth J. – Gifted Child Today, 2014
Research suggests that experts and beginners use qualitatively different writing processes when given the same text to write. Throughout their writing, experts tend to create a network of executive, structural, and content problems that they continually refine and coordinate as they bring the text to fruition. Novices, in contrast, tend to focus…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Writing Processes, Elementary Education, Writing Skills
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Worley, Virginia – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2011
I examine pre-service elementary school teachers' process of defining diversity as part of a state-mandated, high-stakes, teacher education portfolio benchmark; metaphors' roles in their defining process; the evaluation mechanism, and the literal and metaphorical bench-mark boundary these pre-service teachers must reach to enter the profession.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Well Being, Writing Processes, Elementary Education
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Gabriel, Rachael; Gabriel, Mary – Reading Teacher, 2010
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a whole picture book worth? This was exactly the question Pierce School teachers asked themselves when they began the project of compiling a photo library for creating realistic and relevant short texts by and for students across all grades in their K-8 elementary school. In an effort to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Teachers, Elementary Education
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Yolen, Jane – New Advocate, 1989
Recounts the author's writing of "Owl Moon," an award-winning children's book. (MM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Poetry, Writing Processes
Crismore, Avon – 1982
Teaching students to become readers who can work with an author to "build" a text requires a better understanding of the nature of the author-reader relationship. This essay discusses the rights and responsibilities of that relationship by presenting writing and reading as a rhetorical situation--an interaction between author,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Processes, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
Hopkins, Lee Bennett – Teaching and Learning Literature with Children and Young Adults, 1996
Contains a short review of Jane Yolen's work and a short interview with her about what poetry is and what some of her influences have been. (TB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Interviews, Poetry
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Johnson, Nancy J.; Giorgis, Cyndi – Reading Teacher, 2001
Presents an interview with 2000 Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis. Reveals the author's journey as a reader and a writer, offers glimpses into the humor and upbeat attitude of Bud (the main character in Curtis' s award-winning book "Bud, Not Buddy"), and gives a peek into what readers can expect next from this award-winning…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
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Johnson, Nancy J.; Giorgis, Cyndi – Reading Teacher, 2002
Presents an interview with Richard Peck. Notes that Peck was candid about his life and craft as a writer, offering glimpses into the creation of his work and the story behind his receipt of the Newbery Medal. Looks back at a life that led him to become a writer and provides insight into what his readers might expect from future projects. (SG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Interviews, Writing (Composition)
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Doyle, John – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2006
In attempting to define postmodernism, many search for a "neat central core" (Beck, 1993) thus attempting to universalize all postmodern theories and operate "within the modern obsession with control and reason" (Slattery, 2000: 137). In this article, I refrain from attempting a universal definition, but instead present an exploration of the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education, Postmodernism
Player, Corrie – Momentum, 1984
Describes techniques used in a 9-week unit in creative writing for elementary school children. Emphasizes the importance of learning that thinking, reading, and writing are facets of the same processes. Lists readings and books to read aloud and imitate. (DMM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Writing Instruction
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Flowers, Betty S. – Language Arts, 1981
Discusses the roles that writers must assume during the writing process and offers suggestions to help children prevent these roles from conflicting or interfering with each other during writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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