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Kramer-Vida, Louisa; Levitt, Roberta; Kelly, Susan P. – Language Arts, 2012
Standards can aid educators as they work to produce strong student writers who can create meaningful and skillfully crafted authentic pieces of writing. This once-a-month, yearlong professional development program, conducted during the school day, shifted a district's kindergarten writing program to a writing workshop model that enabled the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Writing Processes
Arizona Department of Education, 2006
Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards Dual Purpose Assessment (AIMS DPA) is a combination of two separate tests. One test is AIMS, which measures how well the student knows the reading, writing, and mathematics content that all Arizona students in the student's grade level are expected to know and be able to do. AIMS DPA includes…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Reference Materials, Scoring, Academic Standards
North Dakota State Dept. of Public Instruction, Bismarck. – 1994
Designed to improve student achievement in the English language arts by engaging students in literacy standards, this draft document presents content standards and benchmarks that will help prepare North Dakota students for new complexities of work and social life. The document begins with a preface, a list of basic assumptions, and definitions of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Design, Grade 12, Grade 4
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Guastello, E. Francine; Lenz, Claire – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2004
This study examined the effects of parental training on students' writing scores. Six classes of fourth grade students from three schools were randomly assigned to three experimental and three control groups. Parents of the students in the experimental group attended training sessions and received instruction in the stages of the writing process…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Parent Participation, Experimental Groups, Writing Processes