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Long, Kathryn Louise – 1970
The purposes of this study were to: (1) investigate the nature and extent of specific teaching, and the grade placement of language skills in primary grades; and (2) investigate experimentally the validity, reliability, and practicality of several different methods for measuring achievement in capitalization and punctuation in Grade 2. Phase I…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), English Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Grade 2
Calkins, Lucy McCormick – 1979
Observation and interviews of the children in two third grade classrooms--one in which children write frequently and learn punctuation skills in context, and one in which children learn punctuation in isolation--suggest that punctuation skills are learned more effectively in context. In interviews the "writers" could explain an average of 8.66…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
