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• Summarization:  teaching students how to summarize text.
• Collaborative writing: helping students work together to plan, draft, revise and edit their work.
• Specific goals:  assign goals for writing
• Sentence-combining:  constructing more complex, sophisticated sentences.
• Prewriting: organizing ideas for writing
• Inquiry activities: analyzing data to help develop ideas.
• Study of exemplars:  providing chances for students to read, analyze and emulate good writing.
• Writing for content learning:  using writing as a tool for learning content material.

modified from Writing Next:  Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools.

posted December 6, 2006 « back to Message Center home

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