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Teaching Concepts About Print to English Language Learners and Native Speakers using Interactive Writing in a Kindergarten Classroom

Sherry, Tammie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276533231

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2010, EdD, University of Cincinnati, Education : Literacy.
This study examined the instructional approach of interactive writing with emergent kindergarten writers in a classroom where half of the students were identified as English language learners. The purpose of the study was to examine the teaching of concepts of print during interactive writing and the students’ use of those concepts in journal writing in order to contribute to the limited body of literature on English language learners’ literacy learning at a kindergarten level, as well as emergent writers who are considered Native speakers. Three questions guided the qualitative research and the methodology of the study, which made use of several methods of data collection. The guiding questions for the study examined the ways in which the teacher used interactive writing as a way to explicitly and strategically teach early writers important concepts about print. In addition, individual student journal writings were examined for ways that the students were, or were not, applying those concepts about print in their journal work and compared across the two groups. This study will further knowledge in the field of children’s writing by presenting teachers and teacher educators with the potential implications for interactive writing as an early writing instructional approach that can be used with students who are English language learners as well as Native speakers.
Cheri Williams, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jory Brass, PhD (Committee Member)
Hye Pae, PhD (Committee Member)
Lynne Smith, EDD (Committee Member)
101 p.
Elementary Education
interactive writing; English language learners

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  • Sherry, T. (2010). Teaching Concepts About Print to English Language Learners and Native Speakers using Interactive Writing in a Kindergarten Classroom [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276533231

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sherry, Tammie. Teaching Concepts About Print to English Language Learners and Native Speakers using Interactive Writing in a Kindergarten Classroom. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276533231.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sherry, Tammie. "Teaching Concepts About Print to English Language Learners and Native Speakers using Interactive Writing in a Kindergarten Classroom." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276533231

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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