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Biffignani, Susan Marie – 1995
A study examined the effect of a structured writing process on student comprehension during a year-long classroom writing workshop. Subjects included 10 sixth-grade students of average reading and writing comprehension who completed an initial writing survey as well as quarterly writing behavior self assessments and writing evaluation conference…
Descriptors: Action Research, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Process Approach (Writing)
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on word skills, and offers 30 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of vocabulary, different parts of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Process Approach (Writing)
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on letter and report writing skills, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, which give students practical experience in writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Letters (Correspondence)
Loofbourrow, Peggy Trump, Ed.; Peterson, Art, Ed. – Quarterly of the National Writing Project, 1997
Articles in this publication address the writing process, teaching writing, and research on the teaching of writing, and take the form of personal experience or opinion, or explore the work of others who have contributed to the field. Articles in the first issue of this volume include: "What the Children Convey: On Matters of Time, Talk, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Politics of Education
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Richgels, Donald J. – Reading Teacher, 2003
Discusses four recent writing books: "Teaching to Write: Theory Into Practice" (Jane B. Hughey and Charlotte Slack); "The Writing Teacher's Handbook" (Jo Phenix); "Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers' Workshop Approach" (Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos); and "Directing the Writing Workshop: An Elementary Teacher's Handbook" (Jean Wallace Gillet…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Multiple Intelligences, Process Approach (Writing)
Chiang, Yuet-Sim – 1991
To integrate second language writing with composition theories, a college writing instructor became a teacher-researcher in an ESL writing workshop course. Studying the writing experience of a Malaysian-American student in a process-oriented writing class helped to clarify what happens when non-native speakers begin to take on the identity of a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Language Role, Process Approach (Writing)
Loofbourrow, Peggy Trump, Ed.; Peterson, Art, Ed. – Quarterly of the National Writing Project, 1999
Articles in this publication address the writing process, teaching writing, and research on the teaching of writing, and take the form of personal experience or opinion, or explore the work of others who have contributed to the field. Articles in the first issue of this volume include: "From Grief, Poetry: Expressive Writings from the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Journal Writing, Process Approach (Writing)
Freeman, Marcia S. – 1999
Taking students from emergent to elaborative writers, this book shows teachers how to conduct a daily writing workshop, manage the writing process, and teach the expository and narrative writing techniques primary-grade students will need to become fluent writers. It includes advice on setting up the classroom; scheduling and organizing the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Emergent Literacy, Parent Education
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Kinzer-Brackbill, Kim – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Describes one teacher's approach to process writing, a mainstay for Montessori adolescent classrooms. The premise of the method is that everyone has the natural potential to write and that the emergence of the inner voice must be nurtured by extended conferencing and revision combined with taking risks, experimenting, and continually revising.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Childrens Writing, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education
Boykin, Zsa; Scrivner, Jennifer; Robbins, Sarah – National Writing Project (NJ1), 2004
Between 1996 and 1998, a team of teacher-consultants affiliated with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project (KMWP), Georgia, used support from Project Outreach of the National Writing Project to develop a model for promoting teacher leadership within individual urban schools and for their writing project site as a whole. Their model is not a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Leadership, Models, Teacher Collaboration
Loofbourrow, Peggy Trump, Ed.; Peterson, Art, Ed.; Yoder, Barbara, Ed. – Quarterly of the National Writing Project, 2000
Articles in this publication address the writing process, teaching writing, and research on the teaching of writing, and take the form of personal experience or opinion, or explore the work of others who have contributed to the field. Articles in the first issue of the volume include: "Imaginary Gardens and Real Issues: Improving Language Arts in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Process Approach (Writing)
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Hertz, Marjorie; Heydenberk, Warren – Reading Horizons, 1997
Focuses on performance, processes, and attitudes of 19 kindergarten students who participated in a semester of process writing and instructional activities, asking whether kindergartners can effectively engage in a writing workshop on a sustained basis. Indicates process writing instruction allowed students to show appreciable, measurable gains in…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Instructional Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Lipa, Sally E. – 1989
A study evaluated the effectiveness of an Instructional Television Program (ITV) designed to model and teach aspects of process writing to second-grade children. Two second-grade teachers and their students (each class contained 24 children) comprised the experimental groups; one second-grade teacher and 24 students comprised the control group.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Films, Primary Education
Davidson, Alice – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
In this article, the author shares her experience of participating in "The Novel Process" workshop, given by Roz Morris in Hoover, Alabama, for her seventh grade advanced reading class at Robert F. Bumpus Middle School. "The Novel Process" is a year-long writing project that culminates in the publication of a novel that…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Writing for Publication
Schifferle, Judith – 1985
This handbook is one of a set of six which provide a systematic means to help students in grades 4 through 8 learn the process of writing while building specific writing skills. The handbook focuses on paragraph writing, and offers 25 reproducible lessons, in a variety of formats, to help students improve their use of descriptive, narrative,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades
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