How do you support foundational writing skills while also fostering an environment where writing is seen as a process, as a way to promote critical thinking, and as an art as much as a skill?
The Instructional Strategies for Today’s Writers collection tackles that question while focusing on age-appropriate topics ranging from emergent writing to amplifying voices, think-alouds to the revision process, and teacher feedback to real-world writing experiences. You’ll gain a blueprint for establishing a classroom that grows writers toward independent thought and creativity—and encourages them to write, to think, and to critically view the future.
All of the products listed below are included in the collection price.
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On how writing supports reading, reading supports writing, and the two together support learning.
Speaker(s): Steve Graham
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How to guide students on taking notes to help navigate through the text for meaning-making purposes. *This video was created exclusively for the Instructional Strategies for Today's Writers collections.
Speaker(s): Zoi A. Traga Philippakos
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A look at how to guide students who are rereading their work in order to self-evaluate and make revisions. *This video was created exclusively for the Instructional Strategies for Today's Writers collections.
Speaker(s): Zoi A. Traga Philippakos
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On the "Strategy for Teaching Strategies" and how it can be used in the modeling process to lead students toward independent work and mastery. *This video was created exclusively for the Instructional Strategies for Today's Writers collections.
Speaker(s): Zoi A. Traga Philippakos
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On challenges faced with rhetorical analysis and how best to use the practice to support students on writing and reading assignments. *This video was created exclusively for the Instructional Strategies for Today's Writers collections.
Speaker(s): Zoi A. Traga Philippakos
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On what can happen when students are allowed to write in genres that they relate to and choose. *This video is an excerpt from a full session.
Speaker(s): David Kirkland
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What educators can do to move beyond the forms and modes of writing that have been historically overprivileged. *This video is an excerpt from a full session.
Speaker(s): Shawna Coppola
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On instilling a concrete and actionable process for responsive practices that will help to adapt writing instruction to students’ needs. *This video is an excerpt from a full session.
Speaker(s): Melanie Meehan, Kelsey Sorum
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On the potential of focusing on the writing process itself over the final product. *This video is an excerpt from a full session.
Speaker(s): Sarah M. Zerwin
What five high school teachers learned about their students’ strengths and challenges as writers from the students’ performance on a think-aloud protocol (TAP) assessment.
Author(s): Sarah W. Beck, Lorena Llosa, Kristin Black, Alyssa Trzeszkowski-Giese