This practice guide presents three evidence-based recommendations for helping students in grades 6–12 develop effective writing skills. Each recommendation includes specific, actionable guidance for educators on implementing practices in their classrooms. The guide also summarizes and rates the evidence supporting each recommendation, describes examples to use in class, and offers the panel’s advice on how to overcome potential implementation obstacles. This guide is geared towards administrators and teachers in all disciplines who want to help improve their students’ writing.
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Explicitly teach appropriate writing strategies using a Model-Practice-Reflect instructional cycle.
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Use assessments of student writing to inform instruction and feedback.
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Education Levels:
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Middle Grades
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High School
Audience:
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Administrators
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Parent/Family
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School Specialist
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Teacher
This practice guide was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica Policy Research under contract ED-IES-13-C-0010.
The following research staff contributed to the guide:
Julie Bruch, Joshua Furgeson, Julia Lyskawa, and Claire Smither Wulsin.
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Steve Graham
(Chair)
Arizona State University
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Jill Fitzgerald
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/MetaMetrics
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Linda D. Friedrich
The National Writing Project
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Katie Greene
Forsyth County Schools, Georgia
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James S. Kim
Harvard University
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Carol Booth Olson
University of California, Irvine
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