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Shawna-Kaye D. Tucker; Hamish Chalmers; Victoria A. Murphy – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Creole-speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy development among numerous learners in the Global South. In the Caribbean in particular, the poor writing outcomes of Creole speakers across all levels of education has…
Descriptors: Creoles, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Writing Difficulties
Kastberg, Signe E.; Lischka, Alyson E.; Hillman, Susan L. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
This cross-case analysis of three distinct letter writing activities between prospective teachers (PTs) and K-12 learners provides insights into PTs' levels of feedback according to Hattie and Timperley's (2007) framework. PTs' written feedback from letter writing activities conducted in teacher preparation programs were analyzed using this…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Activities

Jacobs, Lucky – Language Arts, 1976
Writing poems about sports is a way to incorporate writing skills in a language experience approach to poetry. (JH)
Descriptors: Athletics, Poetry, Student Writing Models, Writing Exercises
Acker, Stephen; Halasek, Kay – Journal of General Education, 2008
Seniors submitted and revised essays within ePortfolios for evaluation by high school faculty and university first-year writing instructors. The project also examined differences between high school and college teachers' responses and effects on students' assumptions about the writing expected and valued in college. Results suggest techniques…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Student Writing Models, Writing Exercises, Writing Skills

Ronald, Katharine; Roskelly, Hephzibah – Journal of Basic Writing, 1986
Argues that listening is an integral part of composing by discussing the results of several listening/writing exercises (retellings of short stories or parts of novels). Notes that basic writers learned to hear the reader-voice in texts, thereby developing their internal writer's voice and better control of their writing. (RS)
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Literary Devices, Student Writing Models, Writing Exercises
Bova, Ben – 1975
This book deals with short-story writing only and concentrates on the science fiction short story. The book is written by the editor of "Analog Science Fiction Magazine" and is intended for those people who are interested in writing science fiction. The 14 chapters discuss such topics as the theory of chapter, practicing chapter writing, the…
Descriptors: Characterization, Creative Writing, Fiction, Science Fiction

Cunningham, Donald W.; Dobler, G. Ronald – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Discusses a technique for helping students see the value of revision by using a previously written and revised composition as an illustration. (TJ)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods
Peterson, Jenny; Macheledt, Joan – Bulletin of the English Language Center, 1973
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English (Second Language), Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods

Sullivan, Jerry L. – Action in Teacher Education, 1981
Creative inductive exercises for teaching effective writing skills are presented. Basic objectives of the inductive method include: (1) challenging students with creative options; (2) discovering the basics in sentence construction; (3) interpreting the idea of the "levels of generality;" and (4) focusing on the parallel between sentence…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Educational Objectives, Induction, Student Writing Models
Sinatra, Richard C. – 1975
A method for stimulating and facilitating organizational writing in the secondary school is described in this paper. Pictorial sequences are coordinated and arranged to typify the four major styles of writing: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. These sequences both portray a meaningful event in keeping with the writing style and…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods

Grow, Gerald – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Argues for using and creating negative examples to teach writing. Includes ideas for the following areas: (1) the worst grammar; (2) terrible leads; (3) the worst possible article; (4) the awful two-page spread; and (5) rules for breaking the rules. (MS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Negative Practice, Student Writing Models
Sorensen, Erich – Die Neueren Sprachen, 1970
Descriptors: Bibliographies, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Modern Languages

Fannin, James A. – History Teacher, 1978
Briefly discusses the use of student essays as a technique in the teaching of history. Outlines a student guide to writing reports and includes specific hints on writing essays. (JK)
Descriptors: Essays, Evaluation Criteria, Expository Writing, Higher Education

Gaudiani, Claire – French Review, 1979
Discusses a French course designed to help students learn the dynamics of good writing and become sensitive to style. The approach to teaching writing relies on in-class editing of compositions that students produce on a weekly basis. (NCR)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Editing, English, French
Hampton, Sally – 1989
This teachers' guide responds to some of the more frequently asked questions about teaching and evaluating from Kindergarten through Grade 5. The document is a synthesis of the current research on writing and applies this information to the teaching of writing in the classroom. It is comprehensive in nature and addresses such subjects as…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades, Primary Education, Spelling