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Direct linkShanahan, Timothy; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Educational Leadership, 2012
The Common Core State Standards emphasize the value of teaching students to engage with complex text. But what exactly makes a text complex, and how can teachers help students develop their ability to learn from such texts? The authors of this article discuss five factors that determine text complexity: vocabulary, sentence structure, coherence,…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Datchuk, Shawn M.; Kubina, Richard M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2013
Students with writing difficulties and learning disabilities struggle with many aspects of the writing process, including use of sentence-level skills. This literature review summarizes results from 19 published articles that used single-case or group-experimental and quasi-experimental designs to investigate effects of intervention on the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Disabilities
Andrews, Richard; Torgerson, Carole; Beverton, Sue; Freeman, Allison; Locke, Terry; Low, Graham; Robinson, Alison; Zhu, Die – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
This article reports on the results of two international systematic research reviews which focus on different aspects of teaching grammar to improve the quality and accuracy of 5-16-year-olds' writing in English. The results show that there is little evidence to indicate that the teaching of formal grammar is effective; and that teaching…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Sipe, Rebecca Bowers – English Journal, 2006
As a new faculty member, the author was invited by colleagues to help protect a resource they believed was essential to their instructional program. The importance of teaching grammar in a didactic fashion as a precursor to student writing constituted an unchallenged belief in the department. Faculty members were committed to the notion that…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Form Classes (Languages), Writing (Composition), Grammar
