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Charlotte L. Land; Alison Eike Elliot; Barbara McKinnon – Literacy, 2024
Teachers of young writers often feel pressure to focus on narrow, tested conventions, forms and processes of writing. These pressures can contribute to instruction that does not consider students' interests, experiences, language or cultures, but rather can further deficit views of students whose backgrounds do not closely align with those making…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 4, Grade 9, Writing Teachers
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Laman, Tasha Tropp – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
Over the past 30 years, writing workshops have been implemented in classrooms around the world. Students are being asked to write across multiple contexts and genres and to use digital technologies. At the same time, high-stakes writing tests are increasing even though the time teachers spend teaching writing is decreasing. This study examines…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Writing Workshops, Grade 4, Writing Instruction
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Serna, Carolina – Education, 2009
This study examined the writing development of English language learners (ELLs) in a fourth-grade bilingual classroom in Northern California. The purpose of this study was to explore the linguistic and cultural resources the students used to inform their writing and determine to what extent, if any, these resources influenced their writing. The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Writing (Composition), Research Methodology, Bilingual Education