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Text-Based Writing Assignments for College Readiness
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Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Wang, Elaine; Correnti, Richard – Reading Teacher, 2016
Research shows that cognitively demanding text-based writing assignments increase students' reading comprehension skills and analytic writing competencies. In this article, we describe the steps that upper-elementary grade teachers can take to develop cognitively demanding assignments that build these higher-level literacy skills and put students…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Readiness, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
Reading at the Threshold
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Gogan, Brian – Across the Disciplines, 2013
Recent considerations of threshold concepts in the rhetoric and writing studies discipline fail to consider the role that reading plays in the learning of student writers. This article reports results from a three-part, two-year, empirical study of seventy-five learners enrolled across four sections of a writing-intensive course. The course…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Writing Strategies for All Primary Students: Scaffolding Independent Writing with Differentiated Mini-Lessons, Grades K-3
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Richards, Janet C.; Lassonde, Cynthia A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students' self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Cues, Writing Strategies, Form Classes (Languages)
Poetry and Process: The Reading/Writing Connection.
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Comstock, Mary – Language Arts, 1992
Presents a case study of poetry writing in a fifth grade classroom. Shows not only how writing and reading come together but also how children come together with each other and with published poets. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Writing-to-Learn in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom.
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Wilson, Elizabeth K. – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1996
Describes five writing activities and assignments designed to help students understand the content of social studies and the process of writing. These include student journals, biographical poems, elaborate word games, and creative writing exercises. Illustrative examples relate these to social studies issues. (MJP)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Processes, Reading Writing Relationship
Freedom and Responsibility.
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Weir, Kathleen – English Journal, 1991
Shares the attempts of one teacher to structure a program that allows students to learn and grow as a community of readers and writers through the use of a response-centered curriculum. (MG)
Descriptors: Audience Response, Journal Writing, Reading Writing Relationship, Responsibility
Using Rhetorical Cases to Teach Writing Skills and Enhance Economic Learning.
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Palmini, Dennis J. – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Examines several important principles of writing (e.g., different approaches for different audiences) and applies these to economics and business education. Discusses approaches to teaching writing in this context. Includes a rhetorical case assignment, teaching tips, and discussion of students' reactions to this approach. (MJP)
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Economics Education, Higher Education