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Peer reviewedHolbein, Marie F. Doan; Bristor, Valerie J.; Yahya, Noorchaya – Reading Horizons, 2001
Explores the effectiveness of using television and video to motivate student writing. Describes how, following a series of motivational and brainstorming sessions using television, video, and popular literature, 23 fifth-grade students wrote and videotaped dramatizations of short "teaser" scripts in cooperative groups. Notes that these…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Group Activities, Intermediate Grades, Popular Culture
