Key features

• •Understand which instructional strategies are best suited to teaching writing skills, and gain specific examples for implementing these strategies.
• •Learn how to utilize general and specific strategies to improve the learning environment of the classroom and obtain desired student learning outcomes for writing.
• •Fine-tune your writing curriculum to achieve student success by developing and assessing writing skills with the book's instructional techniques.
• •Examine samples of writing rubrics, proficiency scales, and checklists, and learn effective teaching methods to use them as assessment and instructional tools.
• •Utilize an advance organizer as a quick reference of all strategies to assist you in designing writing curriculum and planning lessons.
• •Access and download free reproducible activities, rubrics for assessing student writing, writing assessment examples, writing checklists, and more for classroom use.