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This blog provides answers to parents and educators concerned about their students’ writing skills.
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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 …
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 …
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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, …
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HOW DOES Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) Help Math Writing & REASONING?
Title: Effects of a Mathematical Writing Intervention on Middle School Students’ PerformanceAuthors: Hughes, E.M; Lee, J.Source: Reading & Writing Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2, 176-192, 2020 Abstract: It is widely …
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Why Accessing ‘Talk’ to Write Works for the Struggling Writer
Tapping “Talk” To Write: An Adolescent Confidence Builder; Effective & Proven = Tapping Existing Neuro-linguistic Networks. Obstacles struggling writers experience include: limited motivation due to failure experiences (Berninger, 1994); a lack of …
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Teach Planning/Revising to Improve Writing
Our struggling writers are often ‘immature’ writers. In the article summary below, we learn that the writing of immature writers is not improved via opportunities for planning or revising their …
Using SRSD For Students With ADHD
[RESEARCH] Why Use Self-Regulated Strategy Development to Teach Written Expression to Struggling Writers? Here’s research that evidences that students who struggle with writing essays need to independently learn and use …