Writing is a task as complex and multifaceted as reading--but it's often
taught as a single skill. Discover how to plan and deliver
comprehensive, explicit, and evidence-based writing instruction with
this groundbreaking book, aligned with IDA's Structured Literacy
approach and based on the latest research.
Joan Sedita's innovative Writing Rope weaves multiple skills and
strategies into five fundamentals of a comprehensive writing
curriculum: critical thinking, syntax (sentences), text structure,
writing craft, and transcription (spelling and handwriting). Teachers of
Grades 4-8 will get crystal-clear guidelines that demystify the process
of helping students learn to write and write to learn across academic
content areas. And with dozens of included templates, handouts, and
other resources--available for download online--teachers will have all
the tools they need to design and deliver explicit, high-quality writing
instruction.
Perfect for professional development, this invaluable planning guide
will help teachers apply the science of reading to the skill of
writing--and help students master a critically important aspect of
literacy.
TEACHERS WILL:
- Learn the fundamentals of effective writing instruction. Get
research-based background knowledge about writing development, the
five components of the Writing Rope framework, the role of fluent
transcription skills in proficient writing, and the intentional
choices proficient writers make about writing craft.
- Apply evidence-based practices in the classroom. Teach essential
skills all students must learn to become proficient writers, focusing
on critical thinking strategies for generating ideas and gathering
information before writing, strategies for each stage of the writing
process, syntactic awareness and sentence writing, paragraph writing,
and skillful structuring of different types of text.
- Help students "write to learn." Teach students how to use writing
to enhance their learning across different content areas. Learn how to
plan effective writing assignments in different content areas, and
explicitly teach students skills for summarizing texts and writing
about narrative and expository text.
PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Apply the Writing Rope framework to support
your students' writing skills with classroom activities, Connect to Your
Classroom questions, suggestions for scaffolding, a Writing Assignment
Guide to use with any grade or content area, and 40+ reproducible
instructional resources for students and teachers.
