Through the use of multiple early writing assessments and a theoretically aligned refined coding system, this study examined preschool children's early writing skills. A total of 496 preschool-aged (3- to 5-year-old) children were assessed on writing tasks designed to measure their handwriting, spelling, writing concept, and composing skills.…

Writing is an essential literacy skill which requires many opportunities for practice and improvement. In this article, it is described how a schoolwide post office offered students opportunities and increased motivation to write, while also allowing teachers autonomy in how they would use it to increase writing experiences among students. A post…

Background and aims: Gender differences in the written language of autistic individuals are an overlooked but important area of research. We contend that the gender differences in spoken language of autistic individuals may extend to written language, mirroring the gender differences of writing in the general population and reflecting the shared…

The broader aim of this study is the corpus-based investigation of the written language production process. To this end, temporal markers have been keylog recorded alongside the writing processes to exploit pauses to segment the speech product into linear units of performance. However, identifying these pauses requires selecting the relevant…

This study examines the linguistic proficiency of the Philippines alternative learning system (ALS) learners, focusing on their writing skills. ALS offers flexible education through school-based and community-based modalities, using standard modules across various subjects. An assessment titled "The students' greatest responsibility"…

Academic writing plays a crucial role in equipping students not only with the ability to write for academic purposes, but also with skills relevant to their future careers. These skills do not stand alone but are strengthened by various other skills. Among these skills, digital literacy and collaboration skills are very supportive of students'…

Students need to know how to communicate succinctly. Often, students struggle to determine how much content is necessary to communicate a message. Designed for courses on public speaking, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication, this activity invites students to tell their class a story using a single sentence. After…

The rise of the digital era has led to a decline in handwriting as the primary mode of communication, resulting in negative effects on handwriting literacy, particularly in complex writing systems such as Chinese. The marginalization of handwriting has contributed to the deterioration of penmanship, defined as the ability to write aesthetically…

The authors have found that hands-on activities and workshops, using a variety of embodied teaching techniques, promote student learning and creative thinking. They present a zine project as a model to bring embodied learning into the classroom. Zines are small circulation, independently created, self-published works of texts and/or images. In the…

Writing an integrated essay based on multiple-documents requires students to both comprehend the documents and integrate the documents into a coherent essay. In the current study, we examined the effects of summarization as a potential reading strategy to enhance participants' multiple-document comprehension and integrated essay writing.…

Expanding information related to environmental degradation is one potential approach to enhance students' environmental literacy and awareness (ecoliterate). This research investigates the relationship between students' skills in writing popular text-based articles and their ecological literacy. A quasi-experimental research design was employed…

The current best evidence meta-analysis reanalyzed the data from a meta-analysis by Graham et al. (J Educ Psychol 115:1004-1027, 2023). This meta-analysis and the prior one examined if teaching writing improved the writing of students in Grades 6 to 12, examining effects from writing intervention studies employing experimental and…

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of implementing a differentiated instruction strategy on developing writing skills among students with learning disabilities in Jordan. The research adopted a quasi-experimental approach, designing a training program tailored to the individual needs of the students. The program included 23 training sessions…

Narrative language development is one of the early literacy skills necessary for proficient reading and writing achievement. The correlation between narrative skills and later writing ability indicates that more advanced and complex narrative generation and recall is linked to later writing output. In this experimental study, 47 preschool students…

First-year students in a distance learning institution face academic writing challenges arising from inadequate writing skills developed in high school, the need to adapt to new writing standards, and limited language proficiency. These challenges could potentially lead to higher dropout' rates, increased failures, and delayed qualification…