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Massey, Chris L.; Gambrell, Linda B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2014
Literacy educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of increasing students' writing proficiency across age and grade levels. With the release of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a new and greater emphasis is being placed on writing in the K-12 curriculum. Educators, as well as the authors of the CCSS, agree that…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, State Standards, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Ability
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Gaquin, Sheila – Educational Leadership, 2006
In this column, the author relates her experience as a teacher in a K-12 school in Point Hope, Alaska, where most of the students spoke "village English," a form of nonstandard English mixed with the village's native language of Inupiaq. She relates how the students' reading test scores, which had been below the 25th percentile, were…
Descriptors: Eskimo Aleut Languages, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Scores