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Kiymaz, Mustafa Said; Doyumgaç, Ibrahim – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
The present study aimed to identify and classify the consistency problems in the texts written by middle school 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and to determine their textual levels. In the study, numerical data were also used within the context of descriptive analysis design, a qualitative research method. The study group included 5th, 6th,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Story Telling, Descriptive Writing, Reliability
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Aneesa Jamal; Abubakr Mohammed Jamal; Sanitah Mohd Yusof – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This small study reveals the value of story writing as a pedagogical technique in environmental education. The qualitative research conducted in 2020 examines 14 Indian children's place-ecological meaning as expressed in the story books they authored. Thematic analysis of the story books, interviews, journals, creative writing assignments &…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Childrens Writing, Story Grammar, Environmental Education
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Chen, Zhi-Hong; Liu, Wen-Yi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influences of a six-stage story structure (4S) approach on elementary students' story production. To this end, the 4S approach was developed and realized in the form of paper-based and digital storybooks based on scaffolding theory. Specifically, the students learned the six-stage story structure…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Preadolescents, Writing Attitudes
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Alves, Kat D.; Kennedy, Michael J.; Brown, Tiara S.; Solis, Michael – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2015
"Reading comprehension" is difficult for many students with disabilities, including those with specific learning disabilities. However these students can be explicitly taught strategies to improve their comprehension abilities. One such strategy is teaching students story grammar in order to provide them with a framework for…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Grade 3
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Bernfeld, L. Elizabeth Shirley; Morrison, Timothy G.; Sudweeks, Richard R.; Wilcox, Brad – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2013
The purpose of this study was to rate oral retellings of fifth graders to determine how passages, raters, and rating occasions affect those ratings, and to identify what combination of those elements produce reliable retelling ratings. A group of 36 fifth grade students read and orally retold three contemporary realistic fiction passages. Two…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Story Telling, Reading Comprehension
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Wiesendanger, Katherine Davis; Perry, Jeannine Rajewski; Braun, Gretchen – Reading Teacher, 2011
This article describes a strategy to support students' development of creative writing and construction of text in a sequential manner. The goal of the Suggest-Choose-Plan-Compose (SCPC) strategy is to improve students' ability to create a story by helping them clarify their thoughts as they generate and organize ideas and basic story elements.…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Strategies, Grade 5, Story Grammar
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Gillespie, Amy; Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Graham, Steve – Elementary School Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine what students know about the process of writing and the characteristics of stories, persuasive arguments, and informational reports. Participants were 50 grade 5 students. Students responded to questions about writing process and the three different types of writing, and showed a nuanced but relatively…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Story Grammar, Persuasive Discourse
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Oakhill, Jane V.; Cain, Kate – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
We report a longitudinal study investigating the predictors of reading comprehension and word reading accuracy between the ages of 7 to 8 (UK Year 3) and 10 to 11 years (Year 6). We found that different skills predicted the development of each. Reading comprehension skill measured in Year 3 was a strong predictor of comprehension in Year 6;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition, Accuracy
Trotman, Alicia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze and interpret the stories told by one teacher, Ms. M, in a fifth grade science classroom. In this study, stories are defined as teacher utterances that are used in first person or third person narrative view, and are related to an experience that occurred outside the classroom. This research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Classroom Environment
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Faggella-Luby, Michael; Wardwell, Michelle – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2011
Response to intervention (RTI) has received considerable attention from both researchers and practitioners as a schoolwide model for service delivery. However, research is limited on RTI applications in middle and high schools. The purpose of this article is to describe the outcomes of an experimental examination of a secondary (Tier 2) literacy…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Middle Schools, Urban Schools
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Bui, Yvonne N.; Fagan, Yvette M. – Preventing School Failure, 2013
The study evaluated the effects of the Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy on two levels. The Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy integrated story grammar instruction and story maps, prior knowledge and prediction method, and word webs through a culturally responsive teaching framework; the Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Balkam, Brittany E.; Nellessen, Jenny A.; Ronney, Heather M. – Online Submission, 2013
Throughout this action research project report, the teacher-researchers explored the problem of test anxiety among students. The purpose of this project was to alleviate test anxiety among students with various interventions in grades five through seven in the subject areas of social studies, science, and language arts. There were 66 student…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Test Anxiety, Elementary School Students
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Jones, Elaine F.; Nelson-Le Gall, Sharon – Negro Educational Review, 2009
Seventy-two first-, third-, and fifth-grade Black children heard stories about Black and White students engaged in computer, physical education, social studies, and spelling tasks at school. Children were asked to evaluate the ability, effort, experience of task difficulty, and likelihood of task success for the story characters. Findings…
Descriptors: African American Children, Childhood Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Story Grammar
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Journal of Children's Literature, 2007
During the past three years, the author has been exploring Grade 5 students' processes of reading and understanding contemporary picturebooks with Radical Change characteristics and metafictive devices, and examining how students use their knowledge of these characteristics and devices to create their own texts. "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Reading Instruction, Fairy Tales, Childrens Literature
Peterson-Karlan, George; Hourcade, Jack J.; Parette, Phil – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2008
In recent years effective instruction in reading for learners with physical and educational disabilities has received great attention in the schools. However, instruction in the corollary skill of writing has received considerably less emphasis. This review paper notes that through the use of assistive technology, students with a variety of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Writing Skills, Assistive Technology, Expository Writing
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