The Influence of Prior Knowledge and Teacher Lesson Structure on Children's Production of Narratives.

Mosenthal, Peter B.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1985

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The Influence of Prior Knowledge and Teacher Lesson Structure on Children's Production of Narratives.

Mosenthal, Peter B.; And Others

Elementary School Journal, v85 n5 p621-34 May 1985

Compositions of 10 high-knowledge and 10 low-knowledge fourth-grade students taught by either academically-oriented or cognitive developmentally-oriented teachers were analyzed in terms of four types of propositions they contained to assess the relative influence of writers' prior knowledge and teachers' classroom lesson structure on students' narrative production. (DT)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Narration, Prewriting, Teaching Styles, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Research, Writing Skills

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Language: English

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