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Direct linkLam, Elizabeth A.; Kunkel, Amy K.; McKevett, Nicole M.; McMaster, Kristen L. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
With over 70% of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students in the United States scoring below proficiency levels in writing (NCES, 2009), teachers must provide early and effective writing intervention to accelerate students' writing skills to meet grade-level standards. In this paper, we provide teachers with a theoretical framework to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Standards, Writing Processes
Download full textNebraska Department of Education, 2016
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively," offers educators three specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenges of teaching students in grades 6-12 to write effectively. This summary focuses on the first of the three recommendations: Explicitly teach…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Writing Strategies
What Works Clearinghouse, 2017
Instructional tips help educators carry out recommendations contained in IES Educator's Practice Guides. The tips, based on a practice guide authored by Steve Graham, Alisha Bollinger, Carol Booth Olson, Catherine D'Aoust, Charles MacArthur, Deborah McCutchen, and Natalie Olinghouse, translate these recommendations into actionable approaches that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Guides
Anderson, Jeff – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes test essay, fiction or nonfiction, short story or argumentation, students need to know certain things in order to write effectively. In 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Jeff Anderson focuses on developing the concepts and application of ten essential aspects of good writing--motion, models, focus,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Nebraska Department of Education, 2012
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers," offers educators four specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenge of teaching writing in elementary school. This summary focuses on recommendation 2a of the four recommendations: Teach students the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Nebraska Department of Education, 2012
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers," offers educators four specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenge of teaching writing in elementary school. This summary focuses on recommendation 2b of the four recommendations: Teach students to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Nebraska Department of Education, 2012
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers," offers educators four specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenge of teaching writing in elementary school. This summary focuses on the third of the four recommendations: Teach students to become…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Nebraska Department of Education, 2012
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers," offers educators four specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenge of teaching writing in elementary school. This summary focuses on the fourth of the four recommendations: Create an engaged community…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Wolsey, Thomas DeVere; Grisham, Dana L. – Guilford Publications, 2012
An innovative, practical guide for middle and high school teachers, this book is packed with specific ways that technology can help serve the goals of effective writing instruction. It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Reprography, Instructional Materials
Richards, Janet C.; Lassonde, Cynthia A. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
The 25 mini-lessons provided in this book are designed to develop students' self-regulated writing behaviors and enhance their self-perceived writing abilities. These foundational writing strategies are applicable and adaptable to all primary students: emergent, advanced, English Language Learners, and struggling writers. Following the SCAMPER…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Cues, Writing Strategies, Form Classes (Languages)
Kroll, Barry M. – Composition Studies, 2000
Explores three alternative approaches (conciliatory approach, integrative approach, and deliberative approach) that writers with a broad repertoire of argumentative styles should be able to adopt when they are addressing controversial issues and disputed topics. Focuses on finding differences among the alternative approaches and looking at…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Persuasive Discourse, Social Problems, Writing Processes
Logan, William Bryant – Teachers and Writers, 1991
Shares two examples of writing, both involving magic and incantation, used as models to help students add energy to their own writing. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction
Peer reviewedBobo, Gay L. – English in Texas, 1995
Explains how a teacher used tape--pieces hanging from her hair, her desk, and student desks--to help students remember some of the principles of writing represented in the acronym TAPE: topic, audience, purpose, and elaboration. (TB)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Hunter, Lew – 1993
Based on the Screenwriting 434 graduate-level seminar at the University of California Los Angeles, this book guides readers/students through every step of the screenwriting process by putting them through the actual writing of an original script. Chapters in the book are: (1) Ideas; (2) The Two-Minute Movie; (3) Building Your Characters; (4) The…
Descriptors: Characterization, Creative Writing, Films, Graduate Study
Haven, Kendall – Teacher Ideas Press, 2004
Through 77 targeted, high-powered writing activities and detailed directions for guiding the activities, author and master storyteller Kendall Haven provides teachers of grades 3-9 with a complete writing program that ensures student success. These field-tested writing strategies and techniques create a carefully sequenced and balanced approach…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Expository Writing, Writing Instruction
