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Publication Date: 1987-Nov
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Thinking, Reading, and Writing across the Curriculum.
Gladstone, Carol
Instruction in reading, writing, and thinking has an important place in all classrooms. A study examined the effect of writing instruction on students' mathematics achievement, as measured by grade point average in math class and scores on the New York State Regency Competency Test in Mathematics. Subjects, 56 ninth-grade students involved in a college bound reading program in a New York City high school, received instruction in word processing, writing process, and publishing which focused on the major assignment--writing a guidebook to the state examination for other students in the school. A control group received no writing enrichment. Results showed that the writing instruction had a positive influence on students' math achievement. (Examples are included of similar projects that have been successfully carried out in English and history class.) (ARH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Grade 9, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools, Mathematical Enrichment, Mathematics Achievement, Motivation Techniques, Problem Solving, Reading Skills, Remedial Instruction, School Publications, Teacher Researchers, Word Processing, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Skills
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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