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Peer reviewedStrickland, James – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1992
Reviews four specific prewriting activities designed to foster prewriting and avoid premature drafting on the computer: freewriting, electronic journal-keeping, idea-generation, and online "conversations." Provides hints for developing lesson files, reviews current prewriting and hypertext software, and provides tips on selecting software. (14…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Prewriting
Peer reviewedSensenbaugh, Roger – Reading Research and Instruction, 1991
Presents a 10-item annotated bibliography of recent documents in the ERIC database that deal with the particular problems associated with educating students in the intermediate grades. (MG)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Critical Thinking, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Alford, Evelyn – Civic Perspective, 1988
Recounts the details of a 2-week summer writing institute for students from grades 3 to 12 that incorporates peer response and revising into civic and creative writing. (MG)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedZellermayer, Michal; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1991
Ongoing computerized procedural facilitation with strategies and writing-related metacognitions for improving writing during and after computerized assistance--the Writing Partner (WP)--was studied, using 60 Israeli high school students. Compared to two non-WP groups, the WP group wrote better essays, internalized explicitly provided guidance, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHughes, Judy A. – English Journal, 1991
Describes the positive experiences of a tenth grade writing teacher using peer evaluation to encourage revision of papers. (PRA)
Descriptors: Grade 10, High Schools, Peer Coaching, Peer Evaluation
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Sallyanne H. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1986
Reviews studies on the whole-language approach of pairing reading and writing courses to enhance the learning in both. Describes a study of 154 students enrolled in basic writing. Results suggest that simultaneous enrollment in a reading class will not significantly influence ability to pass basic writing. (PAA)
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Learning Theories, Reading Writing Relationship
Peer reviewedMiller, Terry – Middle School Journal, 1994
Very few students in the fifth through eighth grades have mastered basic reading/writing/thinking strategies. Improving language arts outcomes is the responsibility of all middle school teachers. The first step is achieving faculty and community consensus on ideal student outcomes in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Implementing language…
Descriptors: Feedback, Integrated Curriculum, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts
Peer reviewedCogie, Jane; Strain, Kim; Lorinskas, Sharon – Writing Center Journal, 1999
Describes how one writing center with many English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students has integrated the "cultural informant" role of tutors with their role of teaching self-editing strategies. Reviews the process of introducing ESL students to use of a learner's dictionary, minimal marking, and error logs. Offers examples of using these…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Error Correction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedZigo, Diane – English Education, 2001
Notes impact of high-stakes language arts assessments on teachers in Georgia rural districts. Provides additional support for what many English teachers already believe--that rich classroom discussion, reading from a variety of texts, student-centered writing assignments, and metacognitive awareness of one's reading and writing strategies…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), High Stakes Tests, Metacognition, Rural Education
Kaniel, Shlomo; Licht, Perach; Peled, Bracha – Gifted Education International, 2000
Results of two studies support the contention that teaching metacognitive strategies with the aid of software packages can enhance positive transfer of reading comprehension and writing skills in very able fifth (n=140) and seventh (n=136) grade learners in Israel. Students receiving metacognitive instruction and using writing-skills software…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSmith, Gabie E.; Eggleston, Tami J. – Teaching of Psychology, 2001
Describes an activity designed to enhance undergraduate student comprehension of the American Psychological Association (APA) manual and style where students examined a poorly written paper for errors in relation to the APA guidelines. Reports the results of a study that tested the effectiveness of the activity. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedStovel, John E. – History Teacher, 2000
Provides background information on the Document Based Question (DBQ) that is part of both the Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. and European history examinations. Includes an example of the process involved in analyzing documents during the AP examination. Discusses teaching techniques that can be used for the DBQ with the purpose of improving student…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Strategies, Equivalency Tests
Direct linkHarris, Karen R.; Graham, Steve; Mason, Linda – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2002
The benefits of a self-regulated strategy development approach for teaching elementary school students with learning disabilities how to write opinion essays are discussed, and the steps of the POW plus TREE strategy of instruction are outlined: develop background knowledge, discuss, model, memorize, support it, and perform independently.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Learning Disabilities, Self Management
Peer reviewedSturm, Janet; Koppenhaver, David A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article describes a cognitive process model of writing as it pertains to adolescents with developmental disabilities. It then synthesizes what is known about the writing process, writing instruction, and technologies that may support the writing development in adolescents with developmental disabilities. Student writing samples and case…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Case Studies, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedMioduser, David; Lahav, Orly; Nachmias, Rafi – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2000
A study investigated the use of a diagnostic and remedial adaptive computer tool to help an eighth-grader with low vision decrease spelling mistakes. Results indicate a clear change in the students' performance, from phonetic writing to process writing and a gradual evolution to automation in spelling and model word retrieval. (Contains…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Education
