Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ359109
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1986
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What Happens When Students Have a Real Audience?
Stoneham, Joyce Keever
Journal of Teaching Writing, v5 n2 p281-87 Fall 1986
Discusses a children's literature project involving a letter-writing exchange between eighth graders and second graders, and the students' collaboration composing short stories. Reports that the eighth graders' reading aloud to the second graders, and receiving suggestions for revisions, had significant audience awareness impact on the eighth graders' writing. (JG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts, Learning Activities, Letters (Correspondence), Literary Devices, Reader Response, Reading Aloud to Others, Revision (Written Composition), Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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