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Three educators share their best ideas on K-12 writing instruction, including writing frames and graphic organizers.
Guides to Teaching Writing. The Harvard Writing Project publishes resource guides for faculty and teaching fellows that help them integrate writing into their courses more effectively—for example, by providing ideas about effective assignment design and strategies for responding to student writing.
The recommendations in this guide cover teaching the writing process, teaching fundamental writing skills, encouraging students to develop essential writing knowledge, and developing a supportive writing environment.
Best Practices in Teaching Writing. Charles Whitaker, Ph.D. Following is a list of selected teaching practices that are well recognized in the profession as being effective in helping students develop as writers.
Adopt and implement a high-quality English language arts curriculum (see the section on “Reading”). Select a writing curriculum and activities that feature explicit, carefully focused instruction and connect to a variety of content areas, including building writing time into all subjects.
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.
This practice guide provides four recommendations for improving elementary students’ writing. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common roadblocks. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence.
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Practices for Effective Writing Instruction. In addition to the principles of effective writing instruction, research has identified several key teaching practices to develop writing skills (listed roughly in order of effectiveness): • Offer instruction in strategies for planning, revising, and editing compositions.
1. Present writing as a process . 2. Make transparent reading and writing connections. 3. Promote writing to learn. 4. Assign writing in multiple genres and across the content areas. 5. Teach grammar in context. 6. Provide authentic writing assessment . 7. Value extracurricular writing practices. 8. Invest in new media writing instruction . 9.