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Download full textPeyton, Joy Kreeft – 1987
A guide to the use of and rationale for dialogue journal writing for promoting the writing development of limited English proficient students is organized in question-answer format. It answers questions often asked by teachers about dialogue journal writing: What is a dialogue journal? What are the benefits to students and teachers? How much time…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Dialogs (Language), English (Second Language)
Laing, Donald – 1985
To determine the syntactic maturity of eighth grade Canadian students' writing, all the students in four eighth grade classes were asked to write two compositions--one narrative and one argumentative--two weeks apart. The syntactic maturity level of the resulting 81 narrative compositions and 82 written arguments was compared with the syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
Benegar, John – 1978
Social studies and language arts teachers can use these self-contained activities to teach writing skills to students in grades 6-12. Some of the activities have a global approach requiring students to write about topics such as human rights and cultural differences. Information provided for each activity includes an introduction, objectives, time…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Global Approach, Intermediate Grades
Hecht, Lawrence W. – 1980
This report presents the major available evidence to date on the validity of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT). The findings are as follows: (1) results of two content-validity questionnaires show New Jersey college instructors to be in general agreement that the test content is appropriate and important to assess; (2)…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Mathematics Achievement
Nyberg, Verner R.; Nyberg, Adell M. – 1982
The Alberta Essay Scales were developed to assist teachers in the grading of essays. They represent a standard based on written compositions at the 12th grade level in 1964 to be compared with current composition writing achievement. A scale for mechanics in English and one for writing style and content are defined through model essays and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
Allen, Sheilah – 1982
An experimental program was undertaken to determine the effects of attitude and reading achievement on writing, to ascertain if intervention could improve writing achievement and attitude, and to predict success in the program on the basis of an attitude inventory that measured need for structure and tolerance of ambiguity. Subjects were 15 boys…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Instructional Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Biggs, Shirley A., Ed.; And Others. – 1982
The 26 papers in this compilation focus on integrated communication instruction. The papers are arranged into four categories: the integrated curriculum, theory and practice on integration, implementation of the integrated curriculum, and the integrated curriculum beyond the classroom. Specific topics discussed in the papers include (1) language…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities
Gebhard, Ann O. – 1974
Offered as an introductory guide to teachers interested in approaching written English as a "second dialect" that students must master, this review covers quantitative investigations of written language. The first section deals with developmental studies, describing how a variety of researchers have related written structure to writer maturity.…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Needs
Greenan, James P. – 1985
This user manual provides students, teachers, counselors, and other school personnel with a set of practical instruments and procedures designed to measure the generalizable communications skills of students in secondary vocational programs. These instruments, strategies, and procedures are intended for diagnostic and prescriptive purposes…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Language Skills
Havriliak, Audrey F.; Dougherty, Mildred – 1985
The current writing across the curriculum movement has shown educators that the process of composing focuses writers' attention on producing much the same material that reading exercises asked them only to recognize. Two taxonomic structures and a list of Scott, Foresman's reading comprehension skills may be used to help demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Theories, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension
Dixon, Kathleen G. – 1985
To show the shortcomings of concentrating on the teaching of sentences and paragraphs in basic writing courses, this paper points out problems encountered by one teacher who attempted to use that approach. The paper describes how the teacher discovered that teaching the rules and concepts of grammar and writing stifles students' creativity,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Expository Writing
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1985
Intended for parents of fifth grade children who are participating in Chapter 1 programs, the learning activities in this booklet give children practice with reading and writing. Among the language skills covered are (1) vocabulary in context; (2) phonetic analysis--consonant sounds and letters; (3) structural analysis--root word endings,…
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1985
Intended for parents of fourth grade children who are participating in Chapter 1 programs that support basic skills education, the learning activities in this booklet give children practice with reading and writing. Among the language skills covered in the activities are (1) vocabulary (in context, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs,…
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Steele, Joe M. – 1982
In 1976, the American College Testing Program (ACT) organized the College Outcome Measures Project (COMP) to design, develop, validate, and implement assessment materials for measuring the knowledge and skills that are expected of general education college graduates and that are important to functioning effectively in adult society. The Composite…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Fine Arts, Higher Education, Natural Sciences
Hays, Janice N. – 1983
The research project described in this paper examined the development of analytic writing abilities in late high school and college level students. Following a brief discussion of the project, in which 135 students at different educational levels wrote position papers on an assigned topic, and 35 participated in protocol analysis, the paper offers…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students
