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ERIC Number: EJ1448177
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 33
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1468-7984
EISSN: EISSN-1741-2919
Agency in a First-Grade Writing Workshop: A Case Study of Two Composers
Danielle Rylak; Lindsey Moses; Carolina Torrejón Capurro; Frank Serafini
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, v24 n4 p783-815 2024
There is a need to better understand the agentic choices that students make to communicate meaning through their multimodal compositions. Utilizing a case study approach, this article examines the composing of two first-grade students and discusses how these students utilized multimodal composing techniques from structured writing units during an "open unit" where students were given wider parameters for making intentional decisions with their compositions. Analysis of students' compositions revealed that students chose to use and design composing techniques from the previous focal units in their compositions. Findings suggest that focal writing units, followed by open composing, allows students to have more agency as writers to make creative intertextual connections as they design techniques from available designs they've learned in order to serve their own compositional needs.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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