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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.

Teaching Text Structure = Better Essay Content
Our take? Although the research cited below shows that strong writers are able to identify and duplicate text structures in essays they’ve read, it also shows that those who can

Predictors of Writing Success
Writing Conventions: Putting the Puzzle Together Title: Predictors of writing success: How important are spelling, grammar and punctuation?Author(s): Daffern, T; Mackenzie, N.M; Hemmings, BSource: Australian Journal of Education 2017, Vol.

PROOF: Teaching Essay Structure Improves Students’ Writing Skills
Title: Investigating a Text Structure Intervention for Reading and Writing in Grades 4 and 5 Author: Strong, J.Z. Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344252759_Investigating_a_Text_Structure_Intervention_for_Reading_and_Writing_in_Grades_4_and_5 Source: Reading Research Quarterly, 55(4). September, 2020 Abstract: Although it

Teach Grammar Within the Context of Written Products Taught: How & Why
Title: Re-thinking Grammar: The Impact of Embedded Grammar Teaching on Students’ Writing and Students’ Metalinguistic UnderstandingAuthors: Myhill, D.A.; Jones, S.M.; Lines, H; Watson, A.Source: Research Papers in Education Vol. 27,