From January to May, 1991, an educator/researcher met once a week with two classes of students, one at second grade and the other at sixth, to share mathematical stories. Prior to these sessions all the students in these two classes and also all the other second- and sixth-grade students in the same school were asked to write a "math…

A study evaluated the effectiveness of an Instructional Television Program (ITV) designed to model and teach aspects of process writing to second-grade children. Two second-grade teachers and their students (each class contained 24 children) comprised the experimental groups; one second-grade teacher and 24 students comprised the control group.…