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: July 1, 2004| Author: | 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 condition as they compose and revise their descriptions of tangrams over three separate writing sessions. Three ...

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