Audio Interviews
Strategies for Using the Writing Process
Listen to a member of the IES Panel discuss how teachers can helps students use strategies to plan and evaluate their writing.
Resources
Resources
Video
Teaching Foundational Skills to Help Students Become Effective Writers
This recommended practice focuses on providing instruction on foundational writing skills, such as handwriting, spelling, sentence construction, typing, and word processing. This presentation describes how to help students become fluent in these foundational skills, allowing them to focus more on developing and communicating their ideas.
Overviews
Providing Daily Time for Writing
This recommended practice focuses on the importance of designating daily time for writing instruction to ensure sufficient practice of writing skills. This presentation outlines key considerations in allocating daily time for writing instruction and integrating writing across the curriculum.
SOURCE: Doing What Works
Audio Interviews
Not Grammar for Grammar’s Sake
Listen to a member of the IES Panel discuss the importance of teaching spelling and of supporting students in learning to construct sentences that convey their intended meaning.
Classroom Materials
Writer's Workshop Every Day
Teachers describe what writing instruction and practice time looks like in their classrooms. Teachers at this school hold a Writer's Workshop every day. This is an example of how writer's workshop is structured in one school.
FEATURING: Angela Sorrell & Beth Scott, Fall Creek Elementary School (NC)
Classroom Materials
Persuasive Writing Lessons
This sample material includes two lesson plans for teachers to help students focus on the elements of strong, persuasive writing pieces.
Classroom Materials
Make Time to Write
This PowerPoint illustrates the components of the Writer's Workshop and provides guidelines for how to structure workshop time. It includes sample schedules and lesson plans. To learn more about the Writer's Workshop, view the associated presentation.
SOURCE: Doing What Works
Classroom Materials
Building a Solid Foundation for Writing
Teachers describe how they teach handwriting, spelling, and sentence construction skills. The teachers also use technology in their classroom to explore texts with their students and to teach typing skills.
FEATURING: Erin Boyce, Sarah Boddie & Sarah Kim, Eagle View Elementary School (VA)
Classroom Materials
Keep It Simple
Teachers can use this template to teach sentence construction in different subject areas to show sentence patterns and to help students construct simple and complex sentences. Listen to the audio interview, Learning to Construct Effective Sentences, to learn more about how to help students to construct sentences.
Classroom Materials
Check This Out
Use the example questions from this sample material to help students understand sentence construction and different techniques that authors use to craft effective sentences. To learn how one sixth-grade teacher uses these questions, listen to the related audio interview.
SOURCE: Doing What Works