Sentences with phrase «school writing discourses»

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More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels of teacher understanding of the chosen literacy model and of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral discourse skills and writing skills with the school's chosen model of literacy instruction.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

As Traub (2000) wrote in a New York Times article, «The idea that school, by itself, can not cure poverty is hardly astonishing, but it is amazing how much of our political discourse is implicitly predicated on the notion that it can».

She wrote her PhD dissertation on the impact of the 2013 school closings on the students of Bronzeville; an expanded version will be published next year by University of Chicago Press as When the Bell Stops Ringing: Race, History and Discourse Amid Chicago's School Closchool closings on the students of Bronzeville; an expanded version will be published next year by University of Chicago Press as When the Bell Stops Ringing: Race, History and Discourse Amid Chicago's School CloSchool Closings.

The shared objective of the legal writing program and the legal writing center is to initiate students into the legal discourse community, and this objective also informs the authority vested in the law school writing center tutor.

See also Lake, supra note 15, at 1026 (noting that professors mean different things when they say IRAC); Adam G. Todd, Exam Writing As Legal Writing: Teaching and Critiquing Law School Examination Discourse, 76 Temp.