RESEARCH: Gains from Interactive Writing in First Grade

[Ryan Goble]

Excellent research that is an anecdote for those that think good elementary literacy instruction is only about reading from the Early Ed Watch Blog...

Kate Roth, a former elementary school teacher who recently graduated from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, decided to investigate.  In an articlein a recent issue of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy,Roth and co-writer Kathleen Guinee of Northeastern University measured the impact of an instructional approach called Interactive Writing.  In a small study at several urban schools, they found that using Interactive Writing for an average of 10.5 minutes a day led to improvements in children’s writing skills in multiple areas, including their ability to generate ideas, organize their words, make smart choices of words, spell words correctly and use proper capitalization, punctuation and handwriting. 

Here is a related YouTube video highlighted in the blog.

Read the whole story HERE.