An Elementary School Curriculum to Develop Better Writing Skills.

Autor/inn/en	Hunt, Kellogg W.; O'Donnell, Roy
Institution	Florida State Univ., Tallahassee.
Titel	An Elementary School Curriculum to Develop Better Writing Skills.
Quelle	(1970), (78 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Black Students; Curriculum Development; Curriculum Research; Elementary Education; Elementary School Curriculum; Grade 4; Instructional Materials; Linguistics; Reading Skills; Sentence Structure; Syntax; White Students; Writing (Composition); Writing Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Research; Curriculumreform; Forschung; Elementarunterricht; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Linguistik; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Schreibübung; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit
Abstract	The primary purpose of this experiment was to see if instructional materials created for fourth graders could enhance their normal syntactic development, and if these materials would succeed better with black or with white students. For one school year a sentence-combining curriculum was demonstrated on 180 students who had been grouped experimentally; 155 students formed a control. All students were pretested on one piece of writing, tested mid-term on writing and rewriting, and post-tested on three pieces of writing. The test results were analyzed, and the curriculum materials were found to be significantly successful in helping the experimental group (1) make more sentence-embeddings than did the control group, (2) improve their free writing, and (3) improve at least one aspect of their reading skill. A comparison of possible effects of the curriculum on black and on white students revealed that only the black experimental classes showed significant superiority over a corresponding control group on the reading instrument or in the syntactic maturity exhibited in their free writing. (Appendices contain two rewriting instruments; Lessons 1-29 of the experimental curriculum; a list of references dealing with research in syntactical and reading skills; and tabulations of findings from the study.) (DD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01