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Cazaux, Henri – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
A teacher/storyteller recommends story creation by students to encourage creativity and pleasure in developing language skills. Suggested exercises include combining random nouns (e.g., "le fer et le bois") and creating a proverb about them, creating a story using names of consumer products, and developing a story using only body-language idioms…
Descriptors: Body Language, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creativity
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1991
Provides fully developed library media activities that are designed to be used with specific curriculum units. Highlights include elementary school activities for reading and language arts (using the "World Almanac," identifying a story's sequence of events, and using autobiographies); science (causes of wind and learning about…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education

Gersten, Russell – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
Reviews recent applied instructional research for students with learning disabilities for the purpose of providing educators and counselors with the background and logic behind the development of current instructional practices. Topics include procedural prompts, scaffolds, cognitive strategies, story grammar, think sheets, anchored instruction,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Rosario, Pedro; Nunez Perez, Jose Carlos; Gonzalez-Pienda, Julio Antonio – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2004
Within the framework of new study programs for Portuguese mandatory education, we carried out a research program at the school "Nossa Senhora do Rosario," under the coordination of this article's first author. Self-regulation of learning is the conceptual framework for the project, called "(Des)venturas do Testas"…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Educational Practices
Denner, Peter R.; Rickards, John P.; Albanese, Andrew J. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2003
The authors assessed the extent to which a generative prereading activity known as Story Impressions (SI), or composing a guess from clues, influences passage recall relative to a more passive prereading activity of reading a Content Preview (CP). The results from 74 eighth-grade students indicated the CP groups equaled the reading-only control…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Prereading Experience
Korn-Bursztyn, Carol – 1995
The psychological report is a particular genre of writing, incorporating elements of content and style shared by other literary genres, and appearing in many different forms. These forms range from terse, profile driven description of strengths and weaknesses, characteristic of computer generated psychological reports, to more descriptive,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Characterization, Children, Literary Genres
Pula, Judith J., Ed. – Maryland English Journal, 1994
A semi-annual refereed publication of research and instructional practices in English/language arts and allied fields, preschool through adult levels, this volume of "Maryland English Journal" presents articles on a variety of subjects and showcases the work of young writers. Articles in volume 29, number 1 are: "Expertise in…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Mikkelsen, Nina – 1990
This study was conducted to investigate how literature and literacy could merge, what effect immersion in a particular type of literature had on the writing and oral stories the children were producing, and what effect spontaneous talk and storymaking had on the classroom literacy process. Each day for 8 weeks, 10 fifth-grade students met…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cultural Influences
Ice, Marie – 1986
To determine the relationship between oral and written language conventions at the macro and micro levels, a study analyzed various elements of stories generated by children. Subjects, nine above average readers between grades 4 and 9, were asked to tell a story and then to write a story. Sources of stories, overall plot organization, and number…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
Bartelo, Dennise M.; Wheeler, Thomas S. – 1985
The nature of children's communication processes of listening, speaking, reading, and drawing/writing that occur during story time is explored in this paper, which describes story time as a literacy event. The framework that children develop during story-time can serve as a vehicle for language arts instruction. In helping children cultivate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Processing

Piccolo, Jo Anne – Reading Teacher, 1986
Presents reading/writing units based on story grammar techniques and intended for students in grades one through six. (FL)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Language Usage

Cudd, Evelyn T.; Roberts, Leslie L. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Discusses the use of story frames as a strategy for teaching reading comprehension to first grade students, and includes examples of student responses. (JC)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Cloze Procedure, Grade 1
Block, Cheryl; Beckwith, Carrie; Hockett, Margaret; White, David – 2001
Part of a series, the purpose of this low-readability/high interest book is to provide instruction and practice in using higher order thinking to develop students' reading comprehension skills. The reading skills addressed in the book are based on state reading standards and assessment tests for grades seven and eight. The goal of this series of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Context Clues, Critical Reading, Fiction

Bahr, Christine M.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
This study compared the effects of two computer-based writing tools (text-based "FrEd Writer" and graphics-based "Once Upon a Time") on the story-writing skills of nine students (grades four through eight) with language-related learning disabilities. Group results did not clearly favor either tool; however, individual…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation

Mahoney, Dino; And Others – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1997
Examines four factors in the operation of formal schemata in the recall of written narrative texts in English by students in Hong Kong: quantity of recall; temporal sequence of recall from story-schematic and input versions of stories; the effects of second language proficiency level on quantity of recall; and the quality of recall. (31…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries