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Schofer, Gill – Language Arts, 1977
A daily dictation period provides continuous reinforcement of spelling and writing mechanics for elementary school students. (DD)
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Language Arts, Primary Education, Punctuation

McCaig, Roger A. – Language Arts, 1977
A comparative study of students' scores in mechanics and usage on standardized tests and ratings of actual writing samples. (DD)
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Educational Research, Elementary Education, English

Cordeiro, Patricia; And Others – Language Arts, 1983
Describes a longitudinal study of first-grade students' progress in learning punctuation. Examines the classroom as a writing environment, then presents a picture of the children's progress in learning to use apostrophes, quotation marks, and periods, drawing several implications for teaching. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade 1, Primary Education, Punctuation

Weaver, Constance – Language Arts, 1982
Finds that the proportion of sentence fragments remained fairly consistent across grade levels, with older students making more errors with more complex syntactic structures as they began to elaborate on ideas and use more subordinate elements. (RL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Punctuation

Calkins, Lucy McCormick; Graves, Donald H. – Language Arts, 1980
Reports classroom observations and dialogues with children that show children's understandings and use of punctuation; reports data showing that children in a class in which punctuation was taught in the context of writing learned more about punctuation than children in a class in which it was taught in isolation. (ET)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Learning Processes