What is the impact of peer-assisted sentence-combining teaching on primary pupils' writing performance?
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Where can I find out more?
Other digests that are available on the subject of young pupils' writing skills are:
- Peer tutoring in writing - A school systems approach
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes
/assessment_for_learning/peer_tutoring_writing/
- A classroom investigation of the growth of metacognitive awareness in kindergarten children through the writing process
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes
/early_years/metacognitive/study_findings
The EPPI systematic review entitled 'The effect of grammar teaching (syntax) in English on 5 to 16 year olds' accuracy and quality in written composition’ looks at the effect of teaching sentence combining on writing by primary and secondary pupils. This can be found on the weblink below:
http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/reel
/review_groups/english/review_seven_abstract.htm
If you would like to draw the attention of Governors or other colleagues unlikely to have time for a full digest to this work you might like to turn to…
A very short summary of the EPPI study can be also found in Issue 3 of the NERF Evidence Bulletin on page 14, which can be downloaded from:
http://www.nerf-uk.org/bulletin/
You could also find a short summary on the links between different aspects of home background and children's developing writing skills on the Learning Exchange Online. The abstracts and summaries on this site can be a useful introduction to a whole range of topics although they are not necessarily based on empirical research.
http://nlg.systemassociates.co.uk/portal/researchcuree/
