Lexical standards for expository writing at Grade 3:The transition from early literacy to academic literacy

This article reports on an investigation of vocabulary thresholds across four standards of writing quality for grade 3 children. An expository prompt was used to elicit first draft writing from 222 students. A quota sampling strategy was used to create a learner corpus of 80 papers. Online lexical p...

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Main Authors: Hetty Roessingh, Scott Douglas, Brock Wojtalewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 2017-07-01
Series:Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal
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Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/24645