BUILDING STUDENTS’ READING-INTO-WRITING SKILLS IN WEBQUEST

Neuroplasticity-Based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students

This study reports an evaluation of the effect of computer-based cognitive and linguistic training on college students' reading and writing skills. The computer-based training included a series of increasingly challenging software programs that were designed to strengthen students' foundational cognitive skills (memory, attention span, processing speed, and sequencing) in the context of listeni...

Improving the writing skills of college students.

Advanced writing skills are an important aspect of academic performance as well as of subsequent work-related performance. However, American students rarely attain advanced scores on assessments of writing skills (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2002). In order to achieve higher levels of writing performance, the working memory demands of writing processes should be reduced so that...

The Effects of Interactive Writing Instruction on Kindergarten Students' Acquisition of Early Reading Skills

Reading skills among students with intellectual disabilities.

Students with intellectual disabilities (ID) display an extremely wide variety of skills in the field of literacy, and the ability to read and write are central learning aims in the education of students with ID. It is vital to gain detailed knowledge on the literacy skills of students with ID in order to plan instruction, create learning environments, implement educational policies or funding ...

Individual Students’ Pathways of Achievement in Mathematics, Reading and Writing

25 This is not the student’s real name (nor is it the name of any other student in our study). For the analyses below, students’ achievement has been grouped for each subject according to whether their results improved, stayed relatively the same, or declined between each phase of the study. For the purposes of this simple analysis, scores that stayed relatively the same were calculated using t...