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Picture Books As Mentor Texts For 10th-Grade Struggling Writers, David Willett Premont
Picture Books As Mentor Texts For 10th-Grade Struggling Writers, David Willett Premont
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The purpose of this study was to fill gaps in the research to determine if picture books in the high school classroom can enhance student writing especially with word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Previous research has not fully considered employing picture books as mentor texts to examine writing traits in the high school Language Arts classroom. The population was 12 participants from two low track English 10 Reading classes. Six participants were identified from each class as low, medium, or high-performing students based on an informal narrative writing activity. This study employed an action research methodology (Sagor, 2000). Students …