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F. Topouzeli; E. Konstantinidou; C. Evaggelinou; V. Barkoukis; E. Fotiadou – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
Embodied cognition and movement-integration (MI) in classroom settings attract the interest of researchers and practitioners. The purpose of this six-week pilot study was to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a MI approach (PunMoves) focusing on the comprehension of punctuation marks in reading, which was implemented in 12…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Punctuation, Dyslexia, Cognitive Processes
Lisa F. Gusewelle – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the impact of the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) on upper-elementary students' first draft writing quality, addressing the challenges teachers face in providing timely and effective feedback on extensive student writing, particularly in spelling, grammar, mechanics, and cohesion. The hypothesis posits…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Spelling, Grammar, Connected Discourse
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Dole, Janice A.; Nelson, Elizabeth Thackeray; Pahnke, Adrienne Lowe; Rush, Elisabeth Dibble – Reading Horizons, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate upper elementary (Grades 4-6) and middle school (Grades 6-8) teachers' views of grammar and its instruction and to determine differences in their views about grammar, its instruction, and its importance to writing proficiency. Participants in this online study were 196 practicing teachers in eight…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Grammar
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Collet, Vicki S.; Greiner, Angelia C. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
A concern about grammar and usage instruction is the ineffectiveness of the frequently-used practice of worksheets and out-of-context application. In light of recent findings that applied grammar instruction can improve students' writing, a need for research on increasing teachers' pedagogical knowledge in this area is indicated. This case study…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Worksheets, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Çerçi, Arif – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The purpose of this study is to analyze writing activities in the student workbooks of a secondary-level Turkish language course (grades 5 to 8) according to the principles of progressive writing. The study is descriptive and employs content analysis as a qualitative research paradigm. The writing activities of the books in this study all…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students, Turkish, Workbooks
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Clark, Urszula – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
The ways in which literacy in English is taught in school generally subscribe to and perpetuate the notion of a homogenous, unvaried set of writing conventions associated with the language they represent, especially in relation to spelling and punctuation as well as grammar. Such teaching also perpetuates the myth that there is one…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy Education, Spelling