Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students

This well written guide to self regulated strategy development (SRSD) provides the teacher a clear description of how to integrate a systematic, but not cook-book, writing strategy instructional block into the classroom. I really like how the text is written to be digestible. Reading a five hundred page text is not what this book is about. It is about getting the information to teachers. Yes, the research is there, but it is plainly stated and well contextualized. There are a ton of lesson plans/ideas in the whole second part of the book. This is proving to be an excellent resource for the design of my class' writing strategy instruction. I highly recommend it for any K-12 teacher teaching writing.

This is one of my favorite books. I finally bought it after repeatedly renewing it from my library. The strategies are easy to implement across several of grade levels (I have used this with special education and regular education students as young as second grade and up to seventh grade). There are a variety of strategies that can be adapted to meet the needs of most writing challenges in the classroom. It has everything you need to explicitly teach the elements of good writing and can be used throughout a student's school career. This doesn't just give theory, but provides the necessary materials and lessons to implement easily in the classroom.

I love this book and bought it for all my -4 grade ELA teachers. I would give it 5 stars, but the section on expository writing is lacking. The narrative, opinion sections are fantastic.

One of the BEST BOOKS and strategies out there for teaching writing. I wish ALL school personnel will read this and utilize the methods. Honestly, just drop all the other approaches like Writer's Workshop etc. and just follow this method. You will be amazed at the results. This is the ONLY method out there for writing with strong empirical evidence.

Easy to follow lesson plans with pages to hang up as anchor charts. I wish the anchor charts were printed on card stock and perforated so o could re use them. I would also be helpful for the student pages to be perforated to make it easier to make copies. My students with learning differences really excelled with this resource

I bought this for a special education writing class. It has some amazing ideas and printables for teaching written expression to all ages. These are also useful with ESL students. SRSD is a well-researched and effective writing strategy.

This book was alright, it was required for a class and had some good ideas. Probably one of my least favorite books I’ve had for class though

Loving this book! I read a study which found the SRSD to be most efficient over other programs. The study I read was used with students who have Asperger's but upon reading it, it's obvious how this is an excellent resource for all students. The book is well structured so you can tag areas and keep it as a ready to use resource in your office/class.

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