Writing Gaps: Strong Verbally, Stuck on Paper

• Writing Supports

  Three student tools for writing that stops short: Say More Cards for generating detail, Connecting Words for flow, and Stop Points for finishing. Includes prompting moves that leave the thinking with the student.

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• Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively: Summary

  Teach writing strategies with a model, practice, reflect cycle. Includes planning and goal-setting examples for grades 6 to 12.

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• Sentence Combining: Teaching Rules of Sentence Structure by Doing

  A direct-instruction routine with a table of six sentence-combining types and examples. Swap in your own content sentences.

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• Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers: Summary

  Written for grades 1 to 6. Use the sentence construction section, including sentence expanding, for students at that level.

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• Supports for Writing and Discussion

  A handout on sentence frames, sentence starters, signal words, and word banks with examples. Written for students who are English learners.

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• How Verbal Rehearsal Can Bridge Speaking and Writing

  Seven quick routines for saying it before writing it, including partner rehearsal, sentence stretching, and speaking an essay.

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• SRSD: Using Learning Strategies to Enhance Student Learning

  Learn the six steps of Self-Regulated Strategy Development, a well-studied way to teach any writing strategy.

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• Free SRSD Writing Resources

  Download planning organizers, mnemonic charts, goal-setting templates, and scoring scales for grades 6 to 12. Classroom use only.

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• Using Assistive Technology to Support Writing

  Match a tool to the barrier: speech recognition, word prediction, or text-to-speech for reviewing a draft.

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