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Hebert, Michael; Simpson, Amy; Graham, Steve – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purposes of this review were to determine: (1) if different writing activities were more effective than others in improving students' reading comprehension, and (2) if obtained differences among writing activities was related to how reading comprehension was measured? Meta-analysis was used to examine these questions across studies involving…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Meta Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Graham, Steve; Hebert, Michael – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
Reading is critical to students' success in and out of school. One potential means for improving students' reading is writing. In this meta-analysis of true and quasi-experiments, Graham and Herbert present evidence that writing about material read improves students' comprehension of it; that teaching students how to write improves their reading…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction