The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between language variables and
writing outcomes with linguistically diverse students in grades 3–5. The participants were …

Purpose As children develop skills in writing across academic contexts, clinicians and
educators need to have a fundamental understanding of typical writing development as well …

This study aimed to describe 1-year changes in students' vocabulary in written narratives.
Secondary aims included examination of accuracy and the relationship between lexical …

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between measures of written
vocabulary and writing quality. Participants included 92 second-grade students and 101 …

The current study explores the contributions of written vocabulary and syntax to
informational writing quality in Grades 5 through 8. Various aspects of language skills …

Two measures of syntactic complexity, clauses per T-unit and words per clause, were used
to examine differences among four genres of text—narrative, descriptive, compare/contrast …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the bilingual writing of adolescent English
language learners (ELLs) using quantitative tools. Linguistic measures were applied to the …

A language-levels model was used to analyze written narratives. The results have
implications for instruction and for documenting change in the story-writing performance of …

Abstract<? Pub Inc> Little is known about writing development among English as a second
language (ESL) and monolingual children. The" simple view of reading"(Gough & Tunmer …

The purpose of this study was to examine construct validity of methods of calculating lexical
diversity in written narrative samples relative to children's performance on a reading …