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Identifying and supporting students in early elementary grades with low literacy achievement is critical to help them achieve grade-level proficiency and stay on track academically. "Reading Recovery"® is an intervention that provides one-on-one tutoring to students in grade 1 with low literacy achievement. This supplemental program aims…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
What Works Clearinghouse, 2023
Identifying and supporting students in early elementary grades with low literacy achievement is critical to help them achieve grade-level proficiency and stay on track academically. "Reading Recovery"® is an intervention that provides one-on-one tutoring to students in grade 1 with low literacy achievement. This supplemental program aims…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Direct linkEllison, Mark; Drew, Christopher – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
There is a persistent "gender gap" in boys' literacy in the United Kingdom. This article reports on one technology-based intervention that may aid teachers in supporting boys to develop creativity within their writing. Boys from a Year 3 class used Minecraft -- a sandbox computer game -- to create virtual worlds that might help them to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Game Based Learning, Creativity, Males
Bali, Reetu – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
This essay explores what the development of writing might look like and how it might take shape in a secondary English classroom. The study problematises current definitions of progress. In direct opposition to standards-driven models, I propose an alternative way of thinking about the development of writers through a series of narrative accounts…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English Instruction, Grade 7, Secondary School Students
Alcock, Hilary L.; Ramirez Barker, Linda – Development Education Research Centre, 2016
This study was primarily undertaken by teachers for teachers, and focuses on the potential contribution of global learning and development education (DE) methodologies to a core aspect of curriculum provision, namely writing. The aim of the study is to explore whether using global learning and DE methodologies can have an impact on pupils'…
Descriptors: Global Education, Global Approach, Educational Research, Writing Achievement
Corden, Roy – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2007
The purpose of this collaborative schools-university study was to investigate how the explicit instruction of literary devices during designated literacy sessions could improve the quality of children's narrative writing. A guiding question for the study was: Can children's writing can be enhanced by teachers drawing attention to the literary…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing (Composition), Children
