Foundational skills like handwriting, high-frequency words, spelling, grammar, and punctuation need more than isolated practice, they need to make their way into students’ independent writing. Read to learn more about how we can explicitly teach these skills, create opportunities for transfer, and use what we notice in students’ writing to determine what comes next.
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Explicit Instruction and Responsive Instruction: Finding Common Ground
Are we teaching writing, or are we teaching writers? It's a question that's becoming increasingly important as schools balance curriculum fidelity with meeting the needs of the students sitting in front of us. This post explores how explicit instruction and responsive teaching work together to create meaningful writing instruction.
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Where’s The Evidence: What to do When Writers Don’t Know
How can we prepare for the complexity of writing instruction and the roadblocks for students? We can create question sequences that help us prepare for the side-by-side conversations as writers develop and create.
