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Worried About Preparing Your Student(s) For College?
This blog provides answers to parents and educators concerned about their students’ writing skills.
Teaching Persuasive Writing: Lessons Learned
(Neither of these students gets what they want) Title: Supporting the Argumentative Writing of Students in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: An Action Research Study Authors: Campbell, Y.C.; Filimon, C. Source: RMLE
Strategy Instruction for Teaching Writing: HOW
Title: Evidence-based teaching of essay writing: Intervention at primary school Authors: Green, K.R.; Topping, K.; Lakin, E. Source: Educational Psychology In Practice 2021, Vol. 37, No. 3, 303–319 Our Take:
Engage Your Students: Use a ‘Student Centered’ Approach! What is it? Why Does it motivate?
Why does a student centered approach engage students? Find out what it is and why it motivates.
Homeschooling? Frustrated Student Writer? Try this!
Homeschooling? Is this your adolescent writer? Unmotivated OR lacking confidence? Try this! Adolescents need proof of success to believe that they are learning or improving and to be confident that
Finding the RIGHT Program for Your Students
Find out how one teacher identified best practice for academic interventions.
Build Client and Learner Confidence……
Eliminate the “I can’t” in the struggling writer’s vocabulary!
Making Common Core Standards Achievable
Making the Common Core achievable. Identify student level and address the skills needed to get from there (baseline) to the common core.
Feedback that’s Honest, Student-Centered, and Useful
Student Motivation = Success. See how students became motivated to write essays.
Web-Based Academic Language Exercises
Here are links that help writers and students produce the academic language that is expected in schools.