Carol Tempest CARR Wirth-Santoro Scholarship Research Report The purpose of this study was to determine the effects selected writing-to-learn approaches would have on secondary high school students’ achievement in and attitudes toward biology. Previous studies have found that writing to…
Twenty-First Century Challenges for Reading/Language Arts Specialists in Connecticut
Jean Klein and Lois Lanning, CARR Research Committee Co-Chairs Editor’s note: This article is a summary of their research for which a full report is available. The twenty-first century, once looked upon as the information age, has become the accountability…
Matching Children With Texts: A Study of Parental Knowledge
Antoinette Fornshell CARR Scholarship Winner, 1999 As a language arts consultant, I have helped countless teachers understand the importance of matching children with books. I have come to realize that as teachers, we look at books differently than the average…
LANGUAGE ARTS RESEARCH IN CONNECTICUT: An Agenda for the Present and the Future
Douglas Kaufman, Ph.D. Almost twenty years ago a literacy revolution hit our schools. When Donald Graves published Writing: Teachers and Children at Work in 1983, he prompted an avalanche of research and writing that transformed reading and writing instruction in…