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Wilson, Joshua; Wen, Huijing – Elementary School Journal, 2022
This study investigated fourth and fifth graders' metacognitive knowledge about writing and its relationship to writing performance to help identify areas that might be leveraged when designing effective writing instruction. Students' metacognitive knowledge was probed using a 30-minute informative writing prompt requiring students to teach their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Metacognition, Writing Attitudes, Writing (Composition)
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Harris, Karen R.; Ray, Amber; Graham, Steve; Houston, Julia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We designed and investigated the first set of instructional procedures we are aware of to teach 4th and 5th grade students how to write a persuasive essay following close reading of a source text. Eight boys and girls attending a diverse, low income school who were having difficulty learning to write participated in an experimental…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Persuasive Discourse, Elementary School Students, Grade 4