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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)
Fujimoto, Toru – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to design and evaluate a web-based self-learning environment for historical inquiry embedded with different types of instructional support featuring story-based pedagogical agents. This research focused on designing a learning environment by integrating story-based instruction and pedagogical agents as a means to…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Qualitative Research, Independent Study, Writing Tests
Wade, Erin; Boon, Richard T.; Spencer, Vicky G. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2010
The aim of this research brief was to explore the efficacy of story mapping, with the integration of Kidspiration[C] software, to enhance the reading comprehension skills of story grammar components for elementary-age students. Three students served as the participants, two in third grade and one in fourth, with specific learning disabilities…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Story Grammar, Learning Disabilities, Computer Software
Patel, Pooja; Laud, Leslie – Preventing School Failure, 2009
This action research case study measured the effectiveness of a writing strategy designed to enhance imagery in stories that 3 students with severe writing difficulties (2 were identified as learning disabled, 1 was undergoing assessment) produced during their resource room sessions. The authors combined the use of the self-regulated strategy…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Story Grammar, Writing Strategies
Bucholz, Jessica L.; Brady, Michael P. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
Preparing people with disabilities for employment is an important task. Many individuals have difficulty learning and performing employment skills without support or guidance. This article describes how literacy-based behavioral interventions (LBBIs), instructional interventions that use print or pictures as an instructional medium, can help…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Intervention, Developmental Disabilities, Employment Programs
Linebarger, Deborah L.; Piotrowski, Jessica Taylor – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
Educational media serve as informal educators within the home by supplementing young children's development. Substantial evidence documents the contributions of educational television to preschoolers' acquisition of a variety of skills; however, television's natural capacity as storyteller and the role it plays in preschoolers' early literacy…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, At Risk Persons, Television, Educational Media
Evensen, Sarah Charlotte – Online Submission, 2008
This thesis uses empirical research in order to understand effective strategies for successfully teaching of the expository essay to ninth grade students. Five focal areas are studied for targeted intervention in order to discover best practices for maximizing student learning of the essay format. The study hypothesizes that in order for ninth…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Strategies, Expository Writing
Naughton, Victoria M. – Reading Teacher, 2008
The Picture It! reading strategy uses the elements of story grammar and visualization in a mnemonic format to enhance comprehension, aid vocabulary development, visually establish story sequence, and stimulate discussion of both the big picture of the story's meaning and the details which support the author's message. It is a strategy that can be…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Story Grammar, Reading Strategies
Passig, David; Eden, Sigal – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
This study sought to test the most efficient representation mode with which children with hearing impairment could express a story while producing connectives indicating relations of time and of cause and effect. Using Bruner's (1973, 1986, 1990) representation stages, we tested the comparative effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) as a mode of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Computer Simulation, Hearing Impairments, Time Perspective
Matunda, Robert Stephen Mokaya – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The objective of this investigation was to analyze rhetorical strategies of Alice Walker in four narratives, namely, "The Color Purple, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and Now Is the Time To Open Your Heart". As such, this study helps to expand the body of investigation relating linguistics to literature and medium…
Descriptors: Investigations, Rhetoric, Phonology, Semantics
Santangelo, Tanya; Harris, Karen R.; Graham, Steve – Remedial and Special Education, 2008
Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is a well-established, thoroughly validated instructional model used to teach a variety of writing strategies to elementary, middle, and high school aged students. In this article, an overview of SRSD is presented. Specifically, this includes a discussion about why students struggle with various aspects…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Writing Strategies, Writing Processes, Grade 5
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
Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Graham, Steve – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
This study examined whether discourse knowledge about various forms of writing predicted young developing writers' (Grade 2 and Grade 4 students) story writing performance once 4 writing (handwriting fluency, spelling, attitude toward writing, advanced planning) and 3 nonwriting (grade, gender, basic reading skills) variables were controlled. It…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Student Motivation, Grade 4, Grade 2
Ibnian, Salem Saleh Khalaf – English Language Teaching, 2010
The current study aimed at investigating the effect of using the story-mapping technique on developing tenth grade students' short story writing skills in EFL. The study attempted to answer the following questions: (1) What are the short story writing skills needed for tenth grade students in EFL?; and (2) What is the effect of the using the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Grade 10, Story Grammar
Wyatt, Neal – Library Journal, 2007
Readers often think of nonfiction as an information experience and not as a story experience, and indeed many nonfiction titles are task oriented, teaching readers how to knit or outlining the process of building a fence. But there is a huge body of nonfiction that is both informative and story-based. New nonfiction classics like Jon Krakauer's…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Nonfiction, Story Telling, Narration