2. implement integrated English language arts?
3. establish the connections between/among listening, speaking, reading, and writing?
4. infuse Writing Workshop methodology?
5. organize content by theme?
6. focus on the three purposes for writing: to inform, to persuade, to express personal ideas?
7. embed grammar and language mechanics instruction in the writing process?
8. allow students to choose their own topics?
Instructional:
1. provide frequent opportunities for students to engage in the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revision, (internal and peer, and give teacher response/guided revision) proofreading, publication (see attached Sample List of Specific Writing Strategies)?
2. provide frequent opportunities for students to discuss and analyze their writing tasks?
3. provide frequent opportunities for students to respond critically to their products from the perspective of development, organization, clarity, and completeness?
4. organize classroom writing centers that include a variety of performance task concepts?
5. encourage journal writing?
6. establish models for writing, e.g., published literature and the works of teachers and peers?
7. display student writing?
8. keep "in process" writing folders?
9. keep student portfolio of on-going work and "best works"?
10. schedule frequent teacher-student conferences to discuss progress and to set individual goals for writing?
11. remediate poor writing habits by focusing on selected skills?
12. involve families in responding to student writing?
Bonnie Hain
Specialist in English Language Arts
410-767-0348