Through the eyes of my reader: a strategy for improving audience perspective in children's descriptive writing.

From: Journal of Research in Childhood Education | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Holliway, David R. | Copyright information

Abstract. The findings in the study suggest "reading-as-the-reader" can improve 5th- and 9th-grade writers" ability to compose descriptive writing consistent with their readers" informational needs. Participants included: 154 writers (78 fifth-graders and 76 ninth-graders) and 52 ninth-grade readers. The study adapted the referential communication design from Traxler and Gernsbacher (1992, 1993) to investigate whether young writers can benefit from a specific perspective-taking con...

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