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Download full textGinty, Eloise; Hawkins, Joanna; Kurzman, Karen; Leddy, Diana; Miller, Jane – American Educator, 2016
The National Writing Project (NWP) has contributed enormously and consistently to the effort to help teachers help students learn to write. In the early 1970s, researchers such as Donald Graves and Janet Emig began studying the ways writers go about the task of thinking and producing polished writing. The NWP's book "Because Writing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Process Approach (Writing)
Wolfe, Barbara; And Others – 1993
Noting that Oregon has been a pioneer in developing assessments which require actual student writing, this booklet includes a collection of student essays and shows how they were evaluated by teachers. The sample essays in the booklet are useful in staff development activities and may also be shared with students, serving as models to help…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Process Approach (Writing)
Wolfe, Barbara; And Others – 1993
Noting that Oregon has been a pioneer in developing assessments which require actual student writing, this booklet includes a collection of student essays and shows how they were evaluated by teachers. The sample essays in the booklet are useful in staff development activities and may also be shared with students, serving as models to help…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Process Approach (Writing), Secondary Education
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It is essential for students to think clearly about fundamental biological concepts. One of the benefits of writing is that it promotes and enhances thinking. If students can write clearly, they are thinking clearly. Writing helps to connect new knowledge with prior knowledge and promotes the construction of knowledge. Writing-to-learn activities…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Ecology, Horticulture, Vocabulary Development
McCurry, Niki – 1992
The Computerized Inventory of Developmental Writing Traits (CIDWT) is meant to provide a valid reliable measure of program improvement, particularly for teachers implementing a process writing approach in their classrooms. While standardized tests, portfolio, and holistic scoring all have something to offer, the CIDWT is an inexpensive direct…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
Shaw, Ann H. – 1997
A practicum was designed to increase the literacy levels of first graders through writing daily for authentic purposes and self-assessing their work. A writing program was designed which allowed for daily authentic writing, and students were taught how to self-assess their written work. Subjects were 60 students in 3 Grade 1 classrooms in a city…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1
