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Dennis, Lindsay R.; Votteler, Nancy K. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2013
Early literacy skill development is critical during the preschool years. Under that umbrella is emergent writing, a small but important component of overall literacy development. This article presents two writing strategies: (1) writers' workshop and (2) dictation within the context of storybook reading that preschool teachers can utilize to…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Childrens Writing, Student Diversity
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Laura Magalas; Thomas G. Ryan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
The Young Writers Program (YWP) is the latest writing workshop to be developed for the classroom. It challenges students to choose a topic and write a novel-length piece based on that topic, without worrying about spelling or grammar. While the foundation of this philosophy is solid, the support and structure of the Young Writers Program website…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Web Sites, Novels
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Geok-Lin Lim, Shirley – World Englishes, 2010
Reflecting on the influence of English nursery rhyme poems on one individual Asian child's language development, the paper reviews current studies on the socio-cultural dynamics of creativity, to examine how these theoretical and empirical investigations may help shape specific pedagogical practices in the expressive language arts in a Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Creative Writing, Rhyme, Foreign Countries
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Glasswell, Kathryn; Parr, Judy M. – Language Arts, 2009
Traditionally, assessing student writing ability has often been product-focused. Advocates of child-centered process-oriented classrooms, however, suggest that teachers should also focus on understanding children's writing behaviors in the context of meaningful communicative tasks. In such an approach, writing conferences are one way in which…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Writing Evaluation, Writing Ability, Educational Technology
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Sheena Martin – Literacy, 2007
This article presents work undertaken with a class of Scottish Primary Six children (aged 10) to investigate the use of interactive whiteboard technology and interactive talking books in whole-class writing lessons. The paper reports on a research project with three aims: to investigate how the use of an interactive whiteboard to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Writing Instruction
Mathena, Traci Johnson – American Educator, 2000
Middle school teacher describes a framework that gives inexperienced, anxious writers the confidence to write. The process, called doing prompts, stems from analyzing prompts or writing assignments that outline the topic for a piece of writing. The process involves analyzing the prompt being called for, completing a graphic organizer, composing…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Graphic Organizers, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Bright, Robin – 1995
This book provides insight into the interrelationship among students' writing, their thinking about their writing processes, and the language of instruction. It offers information on both common and diverse patterns of understanding among children experiencing the same instructional program and explores the influence of instructional language on…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Language Role
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Blake, Brett Elizabeth; Sinatra, Richard – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2005
This paper describes the implementation of the 6Rs writing approach into a summer literacy program offered to poor, urban children in New York City. Taking a cue from Rosenblatt (2004) the authors believe that readers and writers add onto their understandings and extensions of language as they engage in and transact with new readings, new writing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Summer Programs, Program Implementation, Elementary School Students
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Manning, Maryann; And Others – Young Children, 1995
Examines the benefits of exchanging weekly letters among a teacher, first-grade students, and their parents during the school year. The teacher had the opportunity to model letter writing for the children and kept communication open with the parents. Parents were kept informed of their children's performance, and the children were involved in a…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Classroom Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1