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Download full textStrong, William – 1986
Summarizing the wealth of recent research on sentence combining as an effective method of teaching students to tighten and vary their written sentences, this booklet explains how and why sentence combining works. The first half of the booklet provides background information on sentence combining, exploring the basis for the claim that sentence…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Middle Schools, Sentence Combining, Teaching Methods
Anderman, Lynley Hicks; Midgley, Carol – 1999
Research has shown a decline in motivation and performance for many children as they move from elementary school into middle school; however, research has also shown that the nature of motivational change on entry to middle school depends on characteristics of the learning environment in which students find themselves. This Digest outlines some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Classroom Environment, Early Adolescents
Anderman, Lynley Hicks; Midgley, Carol – 1998
Research has shown a decline in motivation and performance for many children as they move from elementary school into middle school; however, research has also shown that the nature of motivational change on entry to middle school depends on characteristics of the learning environment in which students find themselves. This Digest outlines some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Classroom Environment, Early Adolescents
