Academic Effects of Writer's Workshop : Achievement Based on a Process Approach to Teaching Writing

ISBN-13: 9783639153439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str.

Marla Smithson

Opis

Academic Effects of Writer''s Workshop focuses on a process approach to teaching writing in the classroom. The investigation centers on the effects of a particular process writing curriculum, Writer s Workshop, on the writing achievement of fifth grade students as measured by an annualstandardized assessment tool. The research includesthree years of quantitative data with a total of over300 subjects. Background information provides readerswith a history of the development of writinginstruction in schools, a comparison of traditionaland process writing instruction, and a description ofthe major components and essential elements ofWriter''s Workshop. Interviews and a lengthydiscussion of the findings suggest many positiveimplications from the study as well as continued usedof the Writer''s Workshop curriculum with modifications.

O autorze

Marla Smithson earned a BS from the University of TN at
Chattanooga, a MA and an EdS from TN Technology University, and
an EdD from Liberty University. She is an experienced elementary
teacher and an online adjunct professor. She has four grown
children. She resides with her husband, Bill, in Soddy Daisy,
Tennessee.