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Debra McKeown; Michael R. Williams – Beyond Behavior, 2024
Preservice teacher candidates acquire and develop numerous competencies in their teaching programs, including how to teach writing. Effective writing instruction is critical across all ages and content areas, especially when working with students with and at risk of emotional and behavioral disorders, making it an important aspect of teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Writing Instruction
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Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Wang, Elaine; Correnti, Richard – Reading Teacher, 2016
Research shows that cognitively demanding text-based writing assignments increase students' reading comprehension skills and analytic writing competencies. In this article, we describe the steps that upper-elementary grade teachers can take to develop cognitively demanding assignments that build these higher-level literacy skills and put students…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Readiness, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
Olson, Carol Booth; Scarcella, Robin; Matuchniak, Tina – Educational Leadership, 2016
Expectations for high-level academic writing, especially in the Common Core era, have never been higher. Middle school and high school students are being asked to do close readings of complex texts and then respond in writing using academic discourse. This is a challenging task for many students, but perhaps none as great as for English language…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English Language Learners, Instructional Innovation, Evidence Based Practice
Elvira Swender; Daniel J. Conrad; Robert Vicars – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2012
The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines are descriptions of what individuals can do with language in terms of speaking, writing, listening, and reading in real-world situations in a spontaneous and non-rehearsed context. For each skill, these guidelines identify five major levels of proficiency: Distinguished, Superior, Advanced, Intermediate, and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Language Proficiency, Listening, Speech Communication
Combs, Warren E. – Eye on Education, 2009
In this book, the author provides teachers with detailed strategies and lesson plans, along with real student writing samples. He describes effective routines of formative self-assessment, and shows teachers how to form a professional learning team with their colleagues using the 6-session professional learning guide. Contents include: (1)…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Writing Instruction, Educational Strategies
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Ferriter, Bill – Educational Leadership, 2009
Digital tools, such as blogs and wikis, now make it easy for educators to embrace continual learning. Thousands of accomplished educators are now writing blogs in which they reflect on instruction, challenge assumptions, question policies, offer advice, design solutions, and learn together. All this collective knowledge is readily available for…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Writing Ability, Encyclopedias
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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
Richards, Janet C.; Lassonde, Cynthia A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students' self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Cues, Writing Strategies, Form Classes (Languages)
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Hochstetler, Sarah – Action in Teacher Education, 2007
This case study of three teacher education programs in California colleges aimed to answer two questions through informal interviews of methods course instructors and analysis of the associated course syllabi: First, what assumptions or theories of professional development appear to inform the various methods courses for preservice secondary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, English Teachers
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Valdes, Guadalupe; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1992
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Proficiency Guidelines are first reviewed and analyzed, followed by an analysis of the Spanish language writing produced by students at a very selective, private university who were enrolled at different levels of Spanish language study. (75 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Private Colleges
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Townsend, Jane S.; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1997
Principles of writing assessment with at-risk students are explained, including the importance of identifying the purposes of assessment, assessment in the classroom context, and inclusion of children's and parents' perspectives in assessment of the child's writing progress. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, High Risk Students, Parent Participation
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Fellenz, Martin R. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2004
This paper describes the multiple choice item development assignment (MCIDA) that was developed to support both content and higher level learning. The MCIDA involves students in higher level learning by requiring them to develop multiple choice items, write justifications for both correct and incorrect answer options and determine the highest…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Student Attitudes, Writing Ability
Thomas, Peter – Gifted Education International, 1994
Differences in girls' and boys' writing are felt to stem from cultural experiences relating to their reading and viewing. The aim of teachers should not be to produce degendered narrative but to encourage the complementary components of assertiveness, reflectiveness, and awareness of opposed values in both boys' and girls' writing. (JDD)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Gifted
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Corrado, Cathy – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1995
Traditional Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals focusing on mastery of skills taught in isolation are inappropriate for primary-level whole-language classrooms containing children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Sample goals and objectives that measure students' growing ability to read and write are presented. (JDD)
Descriptors: Deafness, Individualized Education Programs, Primary Education, Reading Ability
Jeffers, Robin L. – 1996
In an effort to provide students with instruction in academic writing early in their college careers, a project was undertaken to link a developmental composition course to an introductory psychology course at Washington's Bellevue College. The two professors designed a sequence of four papers offering practice in two of the more common academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Expository Writing, Introductory Courses, Psychology
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