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López, Paula; Torrance, Mark; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Fidalgo, Raquel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study aimed to establish (a) whether teaching students revision skills provides benefit over and above teaching strategies for setting explicit goals for the communicative effect of their text, and (b) whether teaching students to adopt specific revision strategies provides benefits over revision instruction that focusses on increasing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Revision (Written Composition), Elementary School Students, Instructional Effectiveness
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Miles, Michaela – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2020
Research has shown that an audience can make a great difference to a musical performance but limited research has explored this with primary school-aged children. Using an action research study, participants from a primary school choir, students in fifth and sixth class formed into a choir through a compulsory singing programme, were surveyed to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Music Activities, Singing, Performance
Cooperman, Sheila – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This exploratory case study was designed so that I could investigate the writing processes of sixth-grade students when composing traditional and digital compositions. With the increase in multimodal composing in classrooms, understanding how students compose and what traditional print text skills can be appropriated for digital composition is…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Writing Skills
Palombo, Marielle S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Adolescent writing proficiency is widely considered to be in a state of crisis nationally, and new instructional approaches are needed to raise writing proficiency among all adolescents, with special attention to those students who struggle most (Graham & Perin, 2007). The affordances of digital communication media, such as online discussion…
Descriptors: Evidence, Web Sites, Writing (Composition), Electronic Publishing
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Martinez, Ramon Antonio – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This article reports findings from a qualitative study of Spanish-English code-switching--or "Spanglish"--among bilingual Latina/Latino sixth graders at a middle school in East Los Angeles. Analysis of the data revealed significant parallels between the skills embedded in students' everyday use of "Spanglish" and the skills…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Spanish, English, Qualitative Research