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Night Zookeeperis an award-winning and creative writing program online that helps improve the writing skills of 5-12+-year-olds. The creativity begins when children create their own Night Zookeeper avatar. What kid doesn’t love to do that kind of activity online? It feels like a game, so...
The texts were tailored to suit the comprehension level of 13–14-year-olds, with a Flesch–Kincaid score of 67.4 for the English version before it was translated into Finnish. In addition to the reading materials, the students received explicit objectives and an evaluation rubric within the ...
In the current study we addressed the following research questions: (a) Does a 10-week invented writing program for five-year-olds carried out during the last term in preschool influence their phoneme awareness, spelling and word reading skills in preschool? (b) To what extent does an interven...
Although I’m fairly sure 16 year olds don’t wear all their weight around their belly. But then I didn’t have the heart to say anything. Grandpa falls asleep so often it doesn’t do to waste the precious moments he is awake. Reply Eric Jorgenson on September 10, 2012 at 8:07...
And sometimes we also offer students the opportunity to channel those bigger feelings that might have been bottled up over the lifetime and just need to be released, just like they did for me. Whenever I give them the prompts to write from, they can just choose, or they can cho...
Throughout April, I’ve been offering prompts that touch upon the early origins of and uses for poetry. This week, we will go in a bit of a spiritual direction. I titled this prompt “liturgy” to encompass a broad range of spiritual purposes for which poetry is written. Where I work,...
My Storybook Maker–6-8 year olds with great drawing tools, stamps, voice recording, text and sharing capabilities Sway–storytelling any type of event including text, images, and more. Part of MS Office Vocabulary Futaba–fantastic multiplayer game AND a fun way to help children learn new word...
Although not originally intended as part of the research instruments, a tally of the reasons for and against the prompt, “should mothers work?” was taken when it was noticed that there was a wide variety of reasoning used by the 11-year-olds. This diversity, in a sense, helps to answe...
on a laptop running a Microsoft Windows operating system with both spelling and grammar checks turned off. Students were given 10 min to complete each writing task. The writing prompts were similar to control for students’ knowledge and motivation (see Berninger et al.,2009, for similar procedur...