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Tao, Pauline; And Others – 1990
This book consists of a collection of stories written by adults who attend a bilingual ESL (English as a Second Language) program co-sponsored by the Toronto Board of Education and Chinese Information and Community Services. All the writings deal with Chinese culture but the book may be used by people of diverse backgrounds and of varying levels…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Chinese Culture, Cultural Enrichment
Furniss, Elaine R. – 1983
To determine how children develop schema for text that include increasing sensitivity to text types, text categories, orthographic conventions in words, conventional story beginnings and endings, and text cohesive ties, a study examined the writing of four kindergarten children. The kindergarten had adopted a process-conference approach to writing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques
Download full textAghbar, Ali-Asghar; Alam, Mohammed – 1992
A study investigated the effectiveness of full dyadic writing as a technique for teaching writing to students of English as a Second Language (ESL). Subjects were 31 college students of diverse cultural backgrounds enrolled in ESL sections of freshman English. Each chose a partner with a different native language with whom to write two essays, the…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Collaborative Writing, College Students
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
The second phase of a 3-year project examining the effect of a process approach to writing instruction on students' expository reading and writing skills, a study determined the impact of three writing programs that emphasized different aspects of a process-oriented writing environment. Data were gathered from 159 fifth and sixth grade students…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Comprehension
Diller, Janelle – 1994
This curriculum module contains lesson plans and application activities that were developed for the second of two companion courses to help adult students build writing skills by emphasizing writing as a process involving generating ideas through revising, editing, and self-critiquing and by teaching basic grammar, punctuation, and spelling…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audience Awareness, Behavioral Objectives, Brainstorming
Direct linkGraham, Steve, Ed.; MacArthur, Charles A., Ed.; Fitzgerald, Jill, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Highly practical and accessible, this indispensable book provides clear-cut strategies for improving K-12 writing instruction. The contributors are leading authorities who demonstrate proven ways to teach different aspects of writing, with chapters on planning, revision, sentence construction, handwriting, spelling, and motivation. The use of the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education
Diller, Janelle – 1994
This curriculum module contains lesson plans and application activities that were developed for the first of two companion courses to help adult students build writing skills by emphasizing writing as a process involving generating ideas through revising, editing, and self-critiquing and by teaching basic grammar, punctuation, and spelling…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audience Awareness, Behavioral Objectives, Brainstorming
