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Gustaf B. Skar; Steve Graham; Alan Huebner; Anne Holten Kvistad; Marita Byberg Johansen; Arne Johannes Aasen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The current study examined the effectiveness of a "writing is caught" approach with young developing writers in Norway. This method is based on the premise that writing competence is acquired naturally through real use in meaningful contexts. Our longitudinal randomized control trial study tested this proposition by examining if…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Intervention, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Gilken, Jennifer M.; Johnson, Helen L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
The study reported used a Community of Practice (CoP) framework to implement a content-based peer feedback intervention. The goal of this work was to investigate the contribution of the peer feedback intervention influence on improving the writing skills of forty-six community college students in four classes; three classes received the peer…
Descriptors: Intervention, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Communities of Practice
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McKenna, Meaghan; Goldstein, Howard; Soto-Boykin, Xigrid; Cheng, Ke; Troia, Gary A.; Ferron, John – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The limited research available on writing in Grade 1 led to the development and implementation of an intervention for students who were performing below expectations. Ten students participated in a writing intervention for 11-13 weeks. A multiple baseline design across three units of instruction was focused on (a) paragraph structure, (b) sentence…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Writing Improvement, Writing Strategies, Intervention
McKenna, Meaghan; Goldstein, Howard; Soto-Boykin, Xigrid; Cheng, Ke; Troia, Gary A.; Ferron, John – Grantee Submission, 2021
The limited research available on writing in Grade 1 led to the development and implementation of an intervention for students who were performing below expectations. Ten students participated in a writing intervention for 11-13 weeks. A multiple baseline design across three units of instruction was focused on (a) paragraph structure, (b) sentence…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Writing Improvement, Writing Strategies, Intervention
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Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; MacArthur, Charles A. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an approach to teaching opinion writing in the primary grades that combined collaborative reasoning with strategy instruction. Four teachers and 80 students were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions for 10 days of instruction in opinion writing. Students wrote opinion essays…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Young Children
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Bradford, Kendall L.; Newland, Amanda C.; Rule, Audrey C.; Montgomery, Sarah E. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
Recently-adopted standards call for more emphasis on writing in early elementary grades. Rubrics may assist students in attending to important characteristics of effective writing, but research data on their use in early childhood is lacking. This study explores the effects of rubric use on writing instruction of opinion paragraphs for 20 first…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Scoring Rubrics, Writing Instruction