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Bay, Yalçin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
The aim of this study is to compare the teaching process of early reading in the US to in Turkey. This study observes developing early reading of students, their reading miscues, and compares early reading process of students in the US and to early reading process of students in Turkey. This study includes the following research question: What are…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Reading Instruction, Oral Reading, Elementary School Students
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Wagner, Richard K.; Puranik, Cynthia S.; Foorman, Barbara; Foster, Elizabeth; Wilson, Laura Gehron; Tschinkel, Erika; Kantor, Patricia Thatcher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Alternative models of the structure of individual and developmental differences of written composition and handwriting fluency were tested using confirmatory factor analysis of writing samples provided by first- and fourth-grade students. For both groups, a five-factor model provided the best fit to the data. Four of the factors represented…
Descriptors: Spelling, Writing Evaluation, Handwriting, Models
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Roth, Kate; Guinee, Kathleen – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
This study examined the effects of Interactive Writing, a dynamic approach to writing instruction designed specifically for young children, on the independent writing of first graders enrolled in urban schools in a large metropolitan area. Children in the Interactive Writing condition (N = 49) showed greater growth on measures of independent…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Grade 1, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods