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Alexa E. Freitas; Riki Fujioka; Haley M. Zmijewski; Tutita M. Casa – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Although kindergarteners often are excited to share their mathematical ideas, they may not be sure how to explain the underlying reasoning that brought them to their answers. Teachers seeking to use literacy skills in mathematics to support kindergarteners' reasoning can use writing to provide each student an avenue to communicate their individual…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Literacy, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction
Tim T. Andress – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The literacy instruction that adolescent emergent bilingual (EB) students currently receive is insufficient to improve their writing proficiency (Graham et al., 2021; National Center for Education Statistics, 2012). To promote improvements in EBs' writing, evidence-based practices that are culturally and linguistically responsive must be provided…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy Education, Evidence Based Practice, English
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Rock, Cheryl; Metzger, Elizabeth; Metzger, Nzinga – Journal of Food Science Education, 2021
Organizational patterns can serve as a teaching strategy for instructors and as a learning tool for students to develop their expository writing skills, which are commonly required for assignments (for example, laboratory reports and research papers) in Food Science courses and in their future careers. The article discusses the importance of…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Technical Writing, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
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Okumus, Seda – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the effect of the reading-writing-application method from cooperative learning on the understanding of environmental science. Intervention mixed method design was used. The quantitative part of the study was designed with pre- and post-test applied the quasi-experimental design. For the qualitative part of the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Skill Development, Cooperative Learning, Environmental Education
Obaya V., Adolfo E.; Osorio G., Carlos; Vargas, Yolanda Marina – Online Submission, 2020
Techniques are needed to train students in "writing to learn", whose main goal is to "learn to write". This work aims to exemplify how writing can be a teaching learning technique in an example in Chemistry to develop a correct understanding of the preparation of molar solutions in the laboratory. It is essential that this is…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
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Zimmerman, Erin – Across the Disciplines, 2020
This article shares results from a qualitative research project that examines the similarities and differences in how composition textbooks and science-writing textbooks address visual communication topics. This research has two goals. First, it seeks to better understand how visual communication is practiced and valued in the composition and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Communication Skills, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
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Matruglio, Erika – Language and Education, 2021
This article presents a qualitative study of the differential uptake of SFL-inspired metalanguage and SFL-based pedagogy by two senior secondary history teachers in Australia. The teachers were involved in design-based research aimed at improving disciplinary writing for high stakes examinations. While both attended the same training seminar and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; Thomson, Sarah – History Teacher, 2022
Analytical reading and writing are embedded in a disciplinary approach to history instruction and present opportunities to extend students' literacy practices. U.S. educators and researchers have come to rely on the Document-Based Question (DBQ) to assess and develop students' historical knowledge and argument writing. However, this task has been…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Persuasive Discourse
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Dolino, Le Grande – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
This communication recounts two learning-to-write (LTW) activities in a grade 10 chemistry elective course that were implemented online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The activities sought to develop chemistry writing skill for use in students' STEM research. Students seemed to display difficulty in applying topics discussed in class despite them…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Secondary School Science, High School Teachers
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Archila, Pablo Antonio; Molina, Jorge; Truscott de Mejía, Anne-Marie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
English dominates as an international language for science and research. Consequently, this is the most widely used language in university bilingual (e.g. Spanish-English, Chinese-English, Swedish-English) science courses around the world. However, very little is known about how to foster bilingual scientific writing in these types of courses.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Science Education, Biology, Content Area Writing
Spycher, Pam; Austin, Kim; Fabian, Thea – Educational Leadership, 2018
The authors discuss how Rowell Elementary School in California transformed instruction putting writing at the center of student learning. This shift involved helping students demystify how language works in different genres and creating authentic, meaningful writing opportunities for students, often involving cross-curriculum projects. Through…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Content Area Writing
Bristow Evans, Marianne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this feasibility study is to provide evidence of how integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills into eighth-grade social studies instruction facilitates student understanding of content material and ability to write about social studies content. In this within-subjects paired-samples research study, 197…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
Bottoms, Gene; Rock, Daniel; Tadlock, Joseph – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
Literacy is the foundation for success in school and society. An essential goal of every school is to help every student read, write and think critically. Dedicated teachers are the catalyst for reaching this goal. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) developed a literacy professional learning model to better support these dedicated…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Achievement Gap
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Samiullah, Muhammad; Qadeer, Muhammad Zaigham – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2018
The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of communicative approach on proposal/synopsis writing skills of students at Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad as it was found from the literature that Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) had a noteworthy influence to improve proposal writing skills. The researcher used the…
Descriptors: Proposal Writing, Writing Skills, Distance Education, Open Universities
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Hagaman, Jessica L.; Casey, Kathryn J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
Reading comprehension is important for academic success and is a skill required for many activities in school and beyond. With the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), many teachers have reported feeling overwhelmed by the expectations that reading and writing skills should be emphasized, taught, and supported in the content…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Independent Study, Middle School Teachers
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