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Improving Kindergarten Students' Writing Outcomes Using Peer-Assisted Strategies
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Puranik, Cynthia S.; Petscher, Yaacov; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Lemons, Christopher J. – Grantee Submission, 2018
The primary focus of this study was to determine the feasibility of teacher implementation of peer-assisted writing strategies (PAWS) in improving the writing outcomes of kindergarten children. Six classrooms were recruited, and 3 were randomly assigned to the experimental condition. Results indicated that the content, length, and formatting of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Writing Achievement, Writing Strategies, Outcomes of Education
Improving Kindergarten Students' Writing Outcomes Using Peer-Assisted Strategies
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Puranik, Cynthia S.; Petscher, Yaacov; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Lemons, Christopher J. – Elementary School Journal, 2018
The primary focus of this study was to determine the feasibility of teacher implementation of peer-assisted writing strategies (PAWS) in improving the writing outcomes of kindergarten children. Six classrooms were recruited, and 3 were randomly assigned to the experimental condition. Results indicated that the content, length, and formatting of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Writing Achievement, Writing Strategies, Outcomes of Education
The Roles of Punctuation Marks while Learning about Written Numbers
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Brizuela, Barbara M.; Cayton, Gabrielle A. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2008
Twenty-three kindergarten and first grade children were asked to articulate the meaning and the need for punctuation marks in a list of numerals showing prices for a list of items. Despite not having been schooled yet formally on the use and roles of numerical punctuation, many children gave similar explanations regarding the purpose of…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Numbers, Grade 1, Kindergarten
131 Ways to Use Film Containers: To Teach Literacy, Math, and Science--and Just to Have Fun!
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Whyte, Donna – Crystal Springs Books, 2004
Experienced educator Donna Whyte has compiled her ideas for using film containers in the classroom into "131 Ways to Use Film Containers" so that they can be shared with other teachers. She includes engaging ways to use them in teaching children about word families, sight words, and punctuation marks; skip counting, estimating, and predicting; and…
Descriptors: Nonprint Media, Literacy Education, Sight Vocabulary, Punctuation