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 Reports

Writing to Read is a Carnegie Corporation report published by the Alliance for Excellent Education which finds that while reading and writing are closely connected, writing is an often-overlooked tool for improving reading skills and content learning. Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading identifies three core instructional practices that have been shown to be effective in improving student reading:

  1. Have students write about the texts they read
  2. Teach students the writing skills and processes that go into creating text
  3. Increase how much students write

 

Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools - Along with reading comprehension, writing skill is a predictor of academic success and a basic requirement for participation in civic life and in the global economy. Yet every year in the United States, large numbers of adolescents graduate from high school unable to write at the basic levels required by colleges and employers. This report discusses eleven specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help improve the writing abilities of the country’s 4th- to 12th-grade students.

 

 

 Web-Ex Presentations

Identifying and Implementing Key Components of Effective Writing Instruction

This WebEx presentation focuses on writing as a critical aspect of literacy and one in which effective instructional techniques and models for intervention are needed. The described the results and the implications for selecting and implementing effective instructional methods for adolescent writing, especially for students who are struggling or have learning disabilities.

To access the accompanying PowerPoint presentation, click here.

To access the Synopsis of Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools, click here.

   
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