Pedagogical Shifts to Instructional Strategies: The Role

of Writing with Literacy in the Content Areas

Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)

Learn

ing

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es: Articulate the role of writing in

a Tennessee Academic

Standards-aligned classroom.

Apply instructional strategies

to standards-aligned

classroom practice.

Questions to think about while you’re learning this topic:

Define high-quality writing. What does that look like in your classroom?

What is SRSD? How can you use SRSD in your

classroom? Can this strategy be used across

all grade levels and in all content areas? How?

SRSDThe Self-Regulated Strategy Development approach is designed to help students learn, use, and adopt the strategies used by skilled writers. This approach integrates all aspects of authentic writing skills into writing instruction.  Quoted from http://www.thinksrsd.com/self-regulated-strategy-development/

What does Self-Regulated Strategy Development look like in a classroom? Self-Regulated Strategy Development follows a 6 stage gradual release of responsibility model. Students first receive explicit supportive instruction in how to carry out each phase of the writing process, with a community-centered and meaning-based approach to writing instruction. Children progressing through these stages become increasingly independent writers.

OStage 1: Activate and Develop Background Knowledge

• Build enthusiasm for genre• Develop background knowledge

(and pre-skills)• Read and discuss models• Teach genre vocabulary

• Teach strategy (mnemonics)• Map out models with graphic organizers• Review and repair poor models,

together then alone• Establish benefits of strategy use• Explore when / where to use strategy

(generalization)

Stage 2: Discuss It

OStage 3: Model It• Introduce self-talk• Introduce focused model think

alouds• Students personalize and record

self-statements• Introduce collaborative writes• Practice self and peer scoring with

scales• Begin graphing• Introduce goal setting

OStage 4: Memorize It• Internalize strategy via

mnemonics• Internalize personalized self-

statements

Stage 5: Collaborative

Practice

Continue collaborative writing experiences

Support students’ strategy use, fading support when ready

Support self-regulation, fading support when ready

Provide feedback on writing and self-regulation

Fade prompting strategy use and self-regulation

OStage 6: Independent Use• Students use strategies and self-

regulate independently• Fade overt self-instruction to

covert (“in your head”)• Ensure transfer and buy in to

strategies and self-regulation

http://lighthouseview.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/self-regulated-strategy-development-srsd-approach-and-writing-instruction/

High-quality writing skills…preparing

your students for college and career

Quoted from

https://teal.ed.gov/tealGuide/strategydev

Writing researchers identified what good writers

do: plan, monitor, evaluate, revise, and

manage the writing process. They also

observed struggling writers who do not perform

these same steps when writing and produce lower-

quality writing. For example, proficient writers

engage in extensive planning, in which they set

goals about their topic and audience, generate

ideas, and use their knowledge of genres or text

structure to organize ideas. When they revise, they

think about their audience and the substance of

what they have written. They apply evaluation

criteria to identify problems and opportunities for

improvement.

SRSD is an approach that integrates these high-

quality writing skills into classroom instruction.

Supplemental resources:1. National Writing Project: Strategies

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource_topic/teaching_writing

2. ASCD: How to Create and Use Rubrics http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/112001/chapters/An-ASCD-2013-Study-Guide-for-How-to-Create-and-Use-Rubrics-for-Formative-Assessment-and-Grading.aspx

3. DBU University Writing Center: Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay http://www3.dbu.edu/uwc/BeyondtheFive-ParagraphEssay.pptx

4. 3rd Grade Informational/Explanatory Writing Rubric http://tncore.org/sites/www/Uploads/TNCORE/Rubrics/InfExpRubric-Gr3.pdf

5. 4th/5th Grade Informational/Explanatory Writing Rubric http://tncore.org/sites/www/Uploads/TNCORE/Rubrics/InfExpRubric-Gr4-5.pdf

6. 6th – 8th Grade Informational/Explanatory Writing Rubric http://tncore.org/sites/www/Uploads/TNCORE/Rubrics/InfExpRubric-Gr6-8.pdf

7. 9th – 12th Grade Informational/Explanatory Writing Rubric http://tncore.org/sites/www/Uploads/TNCORE/Rubrics/InfExpRubric-Gr9-12.pdf