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Çetin, Hakan; Çetin, Seyma Cihan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of story wheel method on creative writing skills, story elements information and word number. The research was designed as an experimental model. It consisted of seven weeks, including pre and post tests. The research group consisted of 13 third grade students attending at a school in Siirt…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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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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Ulu, Hacer – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
In this research, creative writing of 4th grade students in terms of children's gender, attendance of a keeping a diary, mother's educational background, father's educational background and the number of books read were examined. The sample of this study consisted of 4th grade students. It was drawn from 6 primary schools in the city of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Creative Writing, Writing Skills
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Temiz, Zeynep – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study aims to investigate narrative competence of bilingual children from low socio-economic status (SES) before and after they were involved in fourteen weeks of Turkish storytelling activities. Fifteen bilingual children from low-SES backgrounds participated in this research. Bilingual children first produced narratives using Mercer Mayer's…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Low Income, Bilingualism, Story Grammar
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Sidekli, Sabri – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The aim of written expression studies is to have students explain their knowledge, feelings, ideas and imaginations in a correct and effective manner. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of story map on story writing skills of first grade teacher candidates who study at the Department of Elementary Education. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Grammar, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement
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Temizkan, Mehmet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The aim of this research is to determine the effect of creative writing activities on the skill of university students in writing story genre text. Unequaled control group model which is half experimental is used in this research. 1/A section (experimental group) of standard class and 1/B section (control group) of evening class from Turkish…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Preservice Teachers, Story Grammar
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Smith, Glenn Gordon; Gerretson, Helen; Olkun, Sinan; Joutsenlahti, Jorma – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2010
This study investigated whether infusing "causal" story elements into mathematical word problems improves student performance. In one experiment in the USA and a second in USA, Finland and Turkey, undergraduate elementary education majors worked word problems in three formats: 1) standard (minimal verbiage), 2) potential causation…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Uzuner, Yildiz – Deafness and Education International, 2007
This action research study investigated the impacts of teaching strategies based on the balanced literacy approach on story grammar acquisition of three Turkish students with hearing loss. Data were collected from students' work, archival information, interviews and observations during lessons which were audio- and video-recorded. The pre- and…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Test Results, Action Research, Hearing (Physiology)
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Ilgaz, Hande; Aksu-Koc, Ayhan – Cognitive Development, 2005
This study investigated the premise that action, manifested here through pretend play, is a semiotic arena that can enhance narrative development. It was hypothesized that children would produce structurally more complex narratives in play-prompted elicitation than in direct elicitation conditions, and that this competence would increase with age.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Age Differences, Story Grammar, Play
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Uzuner, Yildiz; Icden, Guzin; Girgin, Umit; Beral, Ayse; Kircaali-Iftar, Gonul – International Journal of Special Education, 2005
According to recent studies, individuals with hearing loss seem to benefit from certain models or strategies, such as text related questions, designed according to the balanced literacy approach. Questions about story grammar that are asked after reading help readers organize and summarize the text. Therefore, it has been found worth to explore…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Questioning Techniques, Hearing Impairments, Females