Teach and Practice Writing Skills With a Writing Prompt Guide
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Posted on: September 8, 2020
Introducing the new IRRC resource to help students, teachers, and caregivers better understand and work with effective writing prompts.
Writing Standards
Uses age/grade appropriate writing skills to plan, revise, edit, and publish writing for a variety of purposes.
Posted on: September 8, 2020
Understanding and Responding to Writing Prompts Guide
Learn about different writing prompts, the five components of a writing prompt, and the writing skills to be taught in order for students to respond to prompts of different genres.
Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: A Guide for Families
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Posted on: April 14, 2020
The IRRC’s Supporting Your Children's and Teen's Home Learning Guide provides web resources by subject area and for assistive technology use, as well as tips for a successful home learning approach.
Supporting Your Children's and Teens' Home Learning Guide
In order to support families as schools provide virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, this guide offers tips on establishing home learning areas, improving the home-based learning experience, and utilizing web resources for students kindergarten-Grade 6 and Grades 7-12 in the subjects of English-language arts, science, social studies, and history. Web resources for assistive technology for home learning are also included for students with reading disabilities.
Improve Your Writing Using Mentor Texts
Questions about a mentor text guide discussion, help students organize their thoughts, and identify techniques and approaches from the example of good writing that students can use. The organizer can be used in a group or individual setting.
Using Mentor Texts to Learn From the Best and Improve Students’ Writing
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Posted on: January 22, 2019
Learn about selecting a good mentor text to teach students writing techniques and approaches through instruction and discussion.
Teaching Writing Fluency Through Feedback and Progress Monitoring Toward Goals
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Posted on: May 15, 2018
A continued look at teaching writing fluency through timed practice, focusing on giving students’ immediate and corrective feedback, and monitoring student progress toward writing goals.
Example Student Graph for Progress Monitoring
Teachers can use this graph to record writing goals and progress toward those goals with their students. A partially completed graph is also included to demonstrate how teachers and students can use the tool.
Assessing Student Writing
An introductory guide about using correct writing sequences (CWS) and incorrect writing sequences (IWS) as measures of student writing.
Sample Plan for Timed Writing Sessions
This plan introduces picture-word prompts for practicing writing fluency and modeling how to use them for one-on-one and small-group instruction. Also includes providing students with feedback and progress monitoring. Related blog post.