Weaving instructional intent statements into assignment design represents a shift toward more transparent, student-centered pedagogy.

Shared writing allows students to engage in the writing process while observing the construction of a high-quality sample. It is a very effective instructional strategy used to teach writing.

Class Meeting 2: Students conduct a genre analysis of instruction manuals, with each student uploading an example of instructions they found online and then four groups answering specific questions ...

We finish up this series on teaching writing with responses from Alan Sitomer, Sean Ruday, Jen Schwanke, Heather Wolpert-Gawron, Kathy Glass, Meghan Everette, and Brian Kissel.

Much research suggests that more writing is associated with more learning, and that’s given more credence to the Writing Across the Curriculum movement, which promotes the importance of writing ...

Developing a novel approach to integrating foundational skills, comprehension and writing instruction within the context of authentic informational text reading to improve fourth- and fifth-grade ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring, 1991), pp. 89-114 (26 pages) This article reviews our research program in written language, including examinations of what and how students with ...