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Direct linkGoldenberg, Lauren; Meade, Terri; Midouhas, Emily; Cooperman, Naomi – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2011
Process-oriented approaches are increasingly used in schools to improve writing. One of these approaches, known as the writing workshop model, is challenging for teachers to implement without supports. This quasi-experimental study evaluated the effectiveness of a middle school writing program that incorporates this model along with technological…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Workshops, Writing Ability, Process Approach (Writing)
Freeman, Marcia S. – 1999
Designed to create and maintain an effective classroom writing workshop, this book explains how to teach young writers style and genre characteristics, composing skills, conventions, and the many aspects of the writing process itself. The second edition includes more information, models, and examples in the expository genre, as well as elaborating…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Poetry, Portfolio Assessment, Process Approach (Writing)
Coulson, Elaine – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Notes that not having anything to say is a major hurdle in the writing process at the middle school level. Describes two common classroom experiences, based on the software programs "GeoWorld" and "Food for Thought," that enable all students to acquire and share information together. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Middle Schools
Download full textJenkinson, Edward B.; Jenkinson, Andrea – 1999
Offering a fresh perspective on making writing meaningful in every classroom, this guide seeks to help the teacher and the parent encourage the student writer as a thinker, not merely as a producer of a paragraph. The guide offers guidance as well as many practical activities that will help students to: organize the mind; play with ideas; find…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Discovery Processes, High Schools, Middle Schools
Behrman, Carol H. – 1995
This handbook contains over 265 reproducible writing process activities that help make writing fun for students in grades 4-8. The handbook provides stimulating activities to give students the directed practice they need to learn to write clearly and competently. Designed for minimal teacher input, activities are complete with directions geared to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Valentine, Carole J. – 1990
An "authentic dialogue" is presented consisting of two case studies that describe how a process learning teacher became a co-learner with her students through the teaching method of natural learning. Two middle school students, a 13-year-old boy named Josh who dashes off his assignments with whirlwind nonchalance and a fourth-grade girl named…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students
Lott, Carolyn, Ed.; Stone, Janet, Ed. – 1997
Addressing the expressed needs of the writing community, this book presents writing lessons for intermediate, middle school, and secondary school students that incorporate the 5-step writing process into content areas as a natural part of the curriculum. The 30 lessons in this book involve students in large and small groups and in individual…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Fairy Tales, Intermediate Grades, Lesson Plans
Cazden, Courtney B. – 1993
The workplace research of Sylvia Scribner provides a model with which to study relationships between socially and institutionally organized practices and individual cognitive processes as well as to explore relationships between practices and processes in writing and the teaching of writing. Observations and conversations in one inner-city,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Lott, Carolyn, Ed.; Stone, Janet, Ed. – 1997
Addressing the expressed needs of the writing community, this book presents writing lessons for intermediate, middle school, and secondary school students that incorporate the 5-step writing process into content areas as a natural part of the curriculum. The 30 lessons in this book involve students in large and small groups and in individual…
Descriptors: Advertising, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Class Activities
Elks, Ann Pharr – 1988
A study focused on the problems of poor performance in classroom assignments and state-wide writing assessments of middle grade students in the practicum setting. The goals of the practicum plan were: (1) to improve teacher competency in the steps of the writing process; (2) to improve student attitudes about writing; and (3) to improve writing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Holistic Evaluation, Middle Schools, Prewriting
