Ask, Reflect, Text: Illustrating Story Plans With Art

Abstract

Nine 2nd-grade students who struggled with writing learned the Ask, Reflect, Text (ART) strategy to help them better address the content that should be included in narrative stories. After asking the questions that address what should be included in their text, students used art media as they reflected to illustrate their answers. They used this visual story plan as a reference for later generating their text. Participants demonstrated a functional relationship between story length, content, and quality as compared to baseline scores. Implications for practice also are discussed.

Keywords:

• literacy
• struggling writers
• intervention
• mnemonic-strategy instruction