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Publication Date: 2001
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A Model for Using Television and Video To Motivate Writing.
Holbein, Marie F. Doan; Bristor, Valerie J.; Yahya, Noorchaya
Reading Horizons, v41 n3 p175-87 2001
Explores the effectiveness of using television and video to motivate student writing. Describes how, following a series of motivational and brainstorming sessions using television, video, and popular literature, 23 fifth-grade students wrote and videotaped dramatizations of short "teaser" scripts in cooperative groups. Notes that these were potent motivators for students' participation in the script writing model. Offers recommendations. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Group Activities, Intermediate Grades, Popular Culture, Scripts, Skits, Student Motivation, Television, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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