A longitudinal intervention study of the effects of increasing amount of meaningful writing across grades 1 and 2
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Published:2023-06-08
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ISSN:0922-4777
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Container-title:Reading and Writing
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Read Writ
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Skar Gustaf B.ORCID, Graham Steve, Huebner Alan, Kvistad Anne Holten, Johansen Marita Byberg, Aasen Arne Johannes
Abstract
AbstractThe current study examined the effectiveness of awriting is caughtapproach with young developing writers in Norway. This method is based on the premise that writing competence is acquired naturally through real use in meaningful contexts. Our longitudinal randomized control trial study tested this proposition by examining if increasing first grade students’ opportunities to write in various genres for different purposes and for a range of audiences over a two-year time period improved the quality of their writing, handwriting fluency, and attitude towards writing. The study included data from 942 students (50.1% girls) in 26 schools randomly assigned to the experimental treatment, and 743 students (50.6% girls) in 25 schools randomly assigned to the business-as-usual (BAU) control condition. Across Grades 1 and 2, experimental teachers were asked to supplement their typical writing instruction by implementing 40 writing activities designed to increase students’ purposeful writing. Increasing experimental students’ writing over the two-year period did not result in statistically detectable differences in the writing quality, handwriting fluency, and attitude towards writing of students in the experimental and BAU control conditions. These findings did not provide support for the effectiveness of thewriting is caughtapproach. Implications for theory, research, and practiced are discussed.
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Norges Forskningsråd NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Speech and Hearing,Linguistics and Language,Education,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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