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Treadwell, Julie Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem is that 5th-grade students are not achieving sufficient writing scores on Georgia state-mandated writing assessments, which the researcher hypothesized was due to the teacher-directed instructional approach utilized at the school. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine whether discovery learning, a method based on the…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Focus Groups, Discovery Learning, Writing Processes
Tompkins, Gail E. – 1998
Reflecting a constructivist approach to teaching and learning, this book presents the content of the language arts curriculum and the most effective strategies for teaching this content. The processes of reading and writing provide the foundation for the three instructional approaches presented in the book: literature focus units, reading and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy