Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students

Finally - highly effective, field-tested lesson plans for the students in every elementary and middle school classroom who struggle with writing. The practical how-to follow-up to Graham and Harris' popular Writing Better, this book is just what K-8 educators need to advance all students' writing skills, whether they have learning disabilities or just need extra help.

Teachers will get concise lesson plans they can use to easily supplement their existing writing curriculum. From 20 to 50 minutes each, the lessons:

• address types of writing that are key to academic success, such as writing reports and constructing essays for standardised tests
• help with every phase of the writing process, from planning to revising
• reinforce new skills through group and individual practice
• ensure that improvements are sustained by teaching students critical self-regulation skills they can use independently
• support effective instruction with step-by-step guidelines and optional scripts for teachers
• engage students with mnemonic devices they'll immediately grasp and remember
• include fun photocopiable support materials, such as cue cards, picture prompts, sheets for graphing story parts, and charts for brainstorming and setting goals

Firmly grounded in the authors' Self-Regulated Strategy Development approach, which has been proven effective by two decades of research, these brief, powerful lessons will help transform struggling students into confident, skilled, and motivated writers.

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Foreword

Robert Reid

Part 1

1. Welcome to Self-Regulated Strategy Development in Writing
2. SRSD for Writing: What, Why, and How
3. Self-Regulation and the Writing Process
4. SRSD: Making It Work

Part 2

I. Strategy for Enhancing Word Choice

5. Vocabulary Enrichment

II. Strategies for Story Writing

6. POW + WWW
7. POW + C-SPACE

III. Strategies for Narrative, Expository, and Persuasive Writing

8. POW + TREE
9. STOP and DARE
10. Report Writing
11. PLANS

IV. Strategies for Revising

12. SCAN
13. Compare, Diagnose, Operate
14. REVISE
15. Peer Revising

V. Strategy for a Writing Competency Test

16. PLAN & WRITE

VI. Strategy for Reading and Writing Informational Text

17. TWA + PLANS

Index