Student-and instruction-level predictors of narrative writing in third-grade students

NG Olinghouse - Reading and Writing, 2008 - Springer
This study examined the student-level and instruction-level predictors of narrative writing
fluency and quality. Participants included 120 third-grade students from 13 classrooms …

Multidimensional levels of language writing measures in grades four to six

GA Troia, M Shen, DL Brandon - Written Communication, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined multiple measures of written expression as predictors of narrative
writing performance for 362 students in grades 4 through 6. Each student wrote a fictional …

Curriculum-based measures of writing across grade levels

JW Weissenburger, CA Espin - Journal of School Psychology, 2005 - Elsevier
This study compared the technical adequacy of curriculum-based measures in written
expression across diverse grade levels. Students (n= 484) completed two narrative writing …

Kindergarten predictors of third grade writing

YS Kim, S Al Otaiba, J Wanzek - Learning and Individual Differences, 2015 - Elsevier
The primary goal of the present study was to examine the relations of kindergarten
transcription, oral language, word reading, and attention skills to writing skills in third grade …

Oral narrative instruction improves kindergarten writing

MS Kirby, TD Spencer, YJI Chen - Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Writing is a critical literacy skill that emerges in kindergarten. The research literature has
only addressed transcription skills of kindergarteners and has failed to address text …

Drama and drawing for narrative writing in primary grades

BH Moore, H Caldwell - The Journal of Educational Research, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
This study compared the effects of planning activities involving drama and drawing with the
traditional planning activity, discussion, on the quality of narrative writing. The subjects were …

New and existing curriculum-based writing measures: Technical features within and across grades

KL McMaster, H Campbell - School Psychology Review, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to examine technical features of new and existing curriculum-
based measures of written expression in terms of writing task, duration, and scoring …

Writing instruction in first grade: An observational study

DL Coker, E Farley-Ripple, AF Jackson, H Wen… - Reading and …, 2016 - Springer
As schools work to meet the ambitious Common Core State Standards in writing in the US,
instructional approaches are likely to be examined (National Governors Association Center …

Measuring written language ability in narrative samples

NW Nelson, AM Van Meter - Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

The narrative waltz: The role of flexibility in writing proficiency.

LK Allen, EL Snow, DS McNamara - Journal of Educational …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
A commonly held belief among educators, researchers, and students is that high-quality
texts are easier to read than low-quality texts, as they contain more engaging narrative and …