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Helping Struggling Writers Through Self-Regulated Strategy Development, Rajvi Kamdar Jun 2008

Helping Struggling Writers Through Self-Regulated Strategy Development, Rajvi Kamdar

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The purposes of this action research was to determine the effectiveness of implementing a self-regulated strategy development model to teach a story writing strategy to three 3rd grade students at a New Jersey Elementary School. This study involved a comparison of stories written by students before and after self-regulated strategy development instruction. Students chosen to participate in the study lacked proficiency in story writing and held negative beliefs towards writing in general. All participants completed a Pre-SRSD Story Writing task, which was holistically scored to determine student ability in story writing. The Pre-SRSD Story Writing task was submitted prior …