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Writing Instructional Strategies
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WRITING PROCESS
POWER
Helps students to : • Plan • Organize • Write • Edit • Revise
Englert, C. S., Raphael, T. E., Anderson, L. M., Anthony, H. M., & Stevens, D. D. (1991). American Educational Research Journal, 23, 337-372. Learning Toolbox. Steppingstone Technology Grant. James Madison University, MSC 1903, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. http://coe.jmu.edu/LearningToolbox/printer/power.pdf
DEFENDS (Argumentative)
Helps students to: • Write a composition defending a position • Provide reasons to back up position
Ellis, E., & Lenz, K. (1987). A Component Analysis of Effective Learning Strategies for LD Students. Learning Disabilities Focus, 2, 94-107. Alley, G.R. (1988). Effects of Generalization Instruction on the Written Language Performance of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities in the Mainstream Classroom. Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities, 4, 291-309.
http://cehs.unl.edu/csi/Pdfs/defends.pdf
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PLANNING
POW
Helps students to: • Pick ideas (i.e., decide what to write about)
• Organize their notes (i.e., brainstorm and
organize possible writing ideas into a writing plan)
• Write and say more (i.e., continue to modify the
plan while writing)
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.16)
This link provides a power point that explains SRSD and STOP, DARE, PLAN, TREE, POW, and WRITE. Information about teaching the self-regulating strategies for student materials and links to Peabody/ Vanderbilt interactive tutorials are provided.
https://earlychildhoodeducation.usu.edu/files/uploads/UTah_State_SRSD.pptx.pdf
STOP (Argumentative)
Helps students to: • Suspend judgment
• Take sides • Organize ideas • Plan to adjust as they write.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.26)
This link provides a power point that explains SRSD and STOP, DARE, PLAN, TREE, POW, and WRITE. Information about teaching the self-regulating strategies for student materials and links to Peabody/ Vanderbilt interactive tutorials are provided.
https://earlychildhoodeducation.usu.edu/files/uploads/UTah_State_SRSD.pptx.pdf
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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WRITING PROCESS
PLAN
Helps students to: • Pay attention to the prompt • List main ideas • Add supporting information • Number major points
This link provides a power point that explains SRSD and STOP, DARE, PLAN, TREE, POW, and WRITE. Information about teaching the self-regulating strategies for student materials and links to Peabody/Vanderbilt interactive tutorials are provided. https://earlychildhoodeducation.usu.edu/files/uploads/UTah_State_SRSD.pptx.pdf
BODY
Helps students to: • Brainstorm/generate ideas for their paper • Review their ideas and place a number by what
will go first, second, third, and so on • Decide which are main ideas and which are
supporting ideas • Create an outline that shows the order of the
main ideas and the supporting details for each main idea
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.16) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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WRITING PROCESS
RAFT
Helps students to understand:
• Their role as writers
• Their audience
• The varied formats for writing
• Their topics
By using this strategy, teachers encourage students to write creatively, to consider a topic from a different perspective, and to gain practice writing for different audiences. Students learn to respond to a writing prompt that requires them to think about various perspectives (Santa & Havens, 1995)
Mitchell, D. (1996). Writing to learn across the curriculum and the English teacher. English Journal, 85, 93-97.
Santa, C., & Havens, L. (1995). Creating independence through student-owned strategies: Project CRISS. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt
http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19783/
PLEASE
Helps students to: • Plan and write compositions • Generate and organize ideas in simple paragraph
form
Welch, M., & Jensen, J.B. (1990). http://cehs.unl.edu/csi/Pdfs/please.pdf
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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WRITING PROCESS
SCORE (Research
paper)
Helps students to:
• Select a subject
• Create categories
• Obtain resources
• Read and take notes
• Evenly organize information
By using this strategy, students learn a concrete, sequential structure to develop a topical research paper.
Korinek, L., & Bulls, J.A. (1996, Summer). SCORE A: A student research paper writing strategy. Teaching Exceptional Children,60-63.
http://cehs.unl.edu/csi/Pdfs/scorea.pdf
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DRAFTING
TREE (Opinion)
Helps students to develop: • Topic – Write a topic sentence expressing an
opinion. • Reason – Give at least 3 reasons to support the
topic sentence. • Explanation – Explain your reasons. • Ending – Formulate a statement to summarize
the topic sentence.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.26) https://earlychildhoodeducation.usu.edu/files/uploads/UTah_State_SRSD.pptx.pdf http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/casl/powtree.html
WWW What=2 How=2
(Narrative)
Helps students to identify the parts of a good story: • W- who
• W- when
• W-where
• W- What do the characters do?
• W- What happens then? • H-How does the story end? • H-How does the main character (and other
characters) feel?
National Center on Accelerating Student Learning, U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Teachers College of Columbia University and Vanderbilt University.
http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/casl/srsd.html
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DRAFTING
WRITE
Helps students to: • Work from plan to develop thesis • Remember writing goals • Include transition words • Try to use different kinds of sentences • use Exciting words
This link provides a power point that explains SRSD and STOP, DARE, PLAN, TREE, POW, and WRITE. Information about teaching the self-regulating strategies for student materials and links to Peabody/Vanderbilt interactive tutorials are provided. https://earlychildhoodeducation.usu.edu/files/uploads/UTah_State_SRSD.pptx.pdf
SSS SENTENCE
GENERATION
Helps students to: • Say Sentences orally • Select the best sentence • Structure sentences using transition words By using this strategy, students learn to select a sentence, paragraph, or text excerpt and imitate the author’s form. They learn to try out sentences orally before writing them on paper. They learn to try multiple sentences and choose the best one. They learn to use transition words to develop different sentence structures and to practice writing good topic sentences.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.16) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
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DRAFTING
SENTENCE EXPANDING
Helps students to: • elaborate • describe • increase sentence structure variety To implement the activity: 1. Introduce a short sentence. 2. Model how to add to the sentence using different parts of speech, demonstrate appropriate capitalization and punctuation as the sentence is expanded. 3. Have students provide suggestions for different parts of speech (e.g., subjects and predicates) to add to the short sentences. 4. Have students work independently or in pairs to expand a sentence. 5. Encourage students to share their expanded sentences in small groups, providing feedback to their peers.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.31) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
SENTENCE COMBINING
Helps students to: • write complex yet concise sentences • express important points and ideas • express ideas in an interesting way
To implement the activity: 1. Choose sentences for combining. 2. Model how to combine the sentences using several examples; with older students, introduce moving, deleting, and adding words or parts. 3. Have students rate the quality of the new sentence, provide alternatives to the new sentence, and discuss which sentences sound better and why. 4. Encourage students to work in pairs to combine sentences, creating several new possibilities and rating the quality of their new sentences.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.31) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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DRAFTING
SENTENCE FRAMING
Helps student to develop sentence writing skills. To implement the activity: 1. Develop a sentence frame for students to use. 2. Model the use of the sentence frame. 3. Have students use the sentence frame to construct their own sentences. 4. Have students share their sentences with peers and discuss their word choices. 5. Slowly fade the use of the sentence frame during instruction until students can write sentences independently.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.31) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
SPACE (Narrative)
Helps students to make a writing plan by considering:
• Setting • Purpose • Action • Conclusion • Emotions
This strategy is the second step of a three-step writing strategy. It is designed to help students make a writing plan and think about the details that should be included in stories. Models, demonstrations, and guided practice should be included when teaching student this strategy.
Harris, K.R., & Graham, S. (1992). Helping young writers master the craft: Strategy instruction and self-regulation in the writing process. Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books, pg. 76. http://cehs.unl.edu/csi/Pdfs/space.pdf
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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REVISING & EDITING
DARE (Argumentative)
Helps students to: • Develop the thesis. • Add ideas to support the thesis. • Reject arguments on the other side. • End with a strong conclusion.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012.
This link provides a power point that explains SRSD and STOP, DARE, PLAN, TREE, POW, and WRITE. Information about teaching the self-regulating strategies for student materials and links to Peabody/ Vanderbilt interactive tutorials are provided.
https://earlychildhoodeducation.usu.edu/files/uploads/UTah_State_SRSD.pptx.pdf
CHECKLIST
FOR WRITING
SELF-CHECK
Helps students to: • Self-evaluate
- Are the ideas clear? - Is there a clear beginning, middle, and end? - Does the writing connect with the reader? - Are sentence types varied?
• Self-monitor writing - Did I meet the goals I developed for my
writing? If not, what changes should I make to meet my goals?
- Did I correctly use strategies that were appropriate for this task? If not, what should I change?
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.16) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
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REVISING & EDITING
COPS
Helps students to edit through answering questions:
• Did I Capitalize the first word in sentences and
proper names? • How is the Overall appearance of my paper? • Did I use commas and end-of-sentence
punctuation? • Did I Spell each word correctly?
The Error Monitoring Strategy, The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, http://www.kucrl.org/sim/strategies/error.shtml IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.16) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
WRITER
Helps students to edit using the steps: • Write on every other line
• Read the paper for meaning
• Interrogate yourself using COPS
• Take the paper to someone to proofread again
• Execute a final copy
• Reread your paper a final time
Schumaker, J.B., Nolan, S.M., & Deshler, D.D. (1985). The error monitoring strategy. In Ellis, E.S., & Lenz, B.K. (1987). A component analysis of effective learning strategies for LD students. Learning Disabilities Focus, 2, 94-107. http://cehs.unl.edu/csi/Pdfs/writer.pdf
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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REVISING & EDITING
PEER EDITING
Helps students to peer edit by: • Placing a question mark (?) by anything they do
not understand in their writing partner’s paper. • Placing a carat (^) anywhere it would be useful
to have the author include more information.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.16) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
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STRENGTHEN WRITING (SHARING WITH PEERS)
AUTHOR’S CHAIR
Helps students provide appropriate verbal feedback to peers about their writing. To implement the activity: During the “Author’s Chair” activity, one student, sitting in a special chair, reads his or her work to peers as they sit on the rug. The teacher then models (using suggested “Author’s Chair”) and facilitates giving kind verbal comments.
IES Practice Guide: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012. (p.38) (p.16)
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/writing_pg_062612.pdf
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Improving Writing
Performance: A Strategy for
Writing Persuasive
Essays
Modules from IRIS website
This professional development module highlights the differences between students who write well and those who struggle. Elements of the writing process are discussed, as are the prerequisite skills students need to write good papers. The module outlines and describes the process for teaching students the POW+TREE strategy, a writing strategy to help students produce better persuasive essays.
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/pow/
Writing Process
Adolescent Literacy website
Adolescent Literacy.org is a resource for parents and educators, grades 4-12. Learn how to model a range of prewriting techniques and introduce several mnemonics to help students organize their writing.”A chart that lists the Planning Mnemonics, what they stand for, what type of writing and credits for RAFT, STOP, DARE, STOP, LIST, W4H2.
http://www.adlit.org/article/36070/%20-%20mnemonics/
Writing Next: Effective
Strategies to Improve
Writing of Adolescents in Middle & High Schools
Center on Instruction website
This synopsis provides the findings reported in “Writing Next”; it identifies 11 instructional strategies, listed in decreasing order of effect size. This resource can facilitate the strengthening of writing instruction for implementation of the College & Career Ready Standards.
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/synopsis-of-writing-next-effective-strategies-to-improve-writing-of-adolescents-in-middle--high-schools
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Writing Instructional Strategies
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Cognitive Strategy
Instruction:
Writing
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cognitive Strategy
Instruction website
The Cognitive Strategy Instruction website contains a variety of writing strategies for spelling, written composition, and proofreading.
http://cehs.unl.edu/csi/writing.shtml