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Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective Writers
Share the study: Graham, S., Bollinger, A., Booth Olson, C., D’Aoust, C., MacArthur, C., McCutchen, D., & Olinghouse, N. (2012). Teaching elementary school students to be effective writers: A practice guide (NCEE 2012- 4058). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department Education
Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective Writers
Share the study: Graham, S., Bollinger, A., Booth Olson, C., D’Aoust, C., MacArthur, C., McCutchen, D., & Olinghouse, N. (2012). Teaching elementary school students to be effective writers: A practice guide (NCEE 2012- 4058). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department Education
Writing Process
Planning
Intervention: Essay Outline
Web Resource: Essay Map
App: Kidspiration Maps Lite
App: Stickyboard 2 Free Edition: Sticky Notes on a Whiteboard to Brainstorm, Mindmap, Plan, and Organize
App: Graphic Organizer
App: Tools 4 Students
Drafting
Intervention: Paragraph Template
Web Resource: Paragraph Hamburger
App: How to Write a Paragraph
Revising
Intervention: Word Banks, Thesaurus, Highlighters
Web Resource: Word flex
Web Resource: Vis-u-words
App: Pages with Highlight feature
App: Liner app
Peer Editing
Intervention: Peer Editing
Web Resource: Peer Editing Form Link
Self Editing
Intervention: Writers Checklist
Web Resource: Editing Checklist for Self Editing
Web Resource: SENTENCE CHECKER Free online spell and grammar checker - an open source proofreading software.
Web Resource: Grammarly free writing app makessure everything you type is easy toread, effective, and mistake-free.
App: Pad Accessibility Features/Speech to Text (Speak Selection)
Editing-Spelling
Intervention: Self Editing Checklist
Web Resource: Spellcheck
App: Speller - Free Spell Checker
Publishing
Apps: Telligami, Chatterkid, Educreations, StoryBook
Website: Storybird is a unique language arts tool. They use illustrations to inspire students to write stories: picture books for K-5, longform chapter books for Grades 5-9, and poetry for everything in-between.
Writing Purpose
Describe, Narrate, Inform, Persuade
Interventions: Integrated Writing Instruction: http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/writing/writing-skills
http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/writing/school-wide-strategies-managing-writing
Web Resource: Research Roundup Florida Center for Writing Research
App: Write to the Core Lite - sentence prompts and paragraph starters for beginning students
App: Writing An Opinion
App: Write About This Free
App: Tell About This Free
Conventions
Handwriting
DeCoste Writing Protocol Pg. 99 Handwriting Speeds
Coping the Alphabet by rote memory (first upper case, then lower case. Each case should be complete in 40 seconds. If it takes longer, handwriting speed could be the task that is keeping a student from progressing in the area of writing.)
Quick brown fox sentence or pangrams
Coping sentences
Coping sentences from dictation
Interventions: http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/writing
Interventions: Rainbow Writing
Web Resource: Handwriting Without Tears
App: Wet-Dry-Try for Capitals, Lowercase and Numbers (Handwriting without tears)
App: iWriteWords Lite
App: abcpocket lite
Spelling
Intervention: Cover Copy Compare Method
Web Resource: Spelling City
App: Word Wizard - Kids learn to spell with talking alphabets, spelling tests & fun phonics games
Sentences
Intervention: Sentence Combining
Web Resource: Silly Sentence Mixup by Florida Center for Research.
App: Rainbow Sentences
App: Sentence Builder
Typing
Intervention: Intervention Central
Web Resource: Dance Mat Typing
App: TapTyping - typing trainer
Planning
Intervention: Essay Outline
Web Resource: Essay Map
App: Kidspiration Maps Lite
App: Stickyboard 2 Free Edition: Sticky Notes on a Whiteboard to Brainstorm, Mindmap, Plan, and Organize
App: Graphic Organizer
App: Tools 4 Students
Drafting
Intervention: Paragraph Template
Web Resource: Paragraph Hamburger
App: How to Write a Paragraph
Revising
Intervention: Word Banks, Thesaurus, Highlighters
Web Resource: Word flex
Web Resource: Vis-u-words
App: Pages with Highlight feature
App: Liner app
Peer Editing
Intervention: Peer Editing
Web Resource: Peer Editing Form Link
Self Editing
Intervention: Writers Checklist
Web Resource: Editing Checklist for Self Editing
Web Resource: SENTENCE CHECKER Free online spell and grammar checker - an open source proofreading software.
Web Resource: Grammarly free writing app makessure everything you type is easy toread, effective, and mistake-free.
App: Pad Accessibility Features/Speech to Text (Speak Selection)
Editing-Spelling
Intervention: Self Editing Checklist
Web Resource: Spellcheck
App: Speller - Free Spell Checker
Publishing
Apps: Telligami, Chatterkid, Educreations, StoryBook
Website: Storybird is a unique language arts tool. They use illustrations to inspire students to write stories: picture books for K-5, longform chapter books for Grades 5-9, and poetry for everything in-between.
Writing Purpose
Describe, Narrate, Inform, Persuade
Interventions: Integrated Writing Instruction: http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/writing/writing-skills
http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/writing/school-wide-strategies-managing-writing
Web Resource: Research Roundup Florida Center for Writing Research
App: Write to the Core Lite - sentence prompts and paragraph starters for beginning students
App: Writing An Opinion
App: Write About This Free
App: Tell About This Free
Conventions
Handwriting
DeCoste Writing Protocol Pg. 99 Handwriting Speeds
Coping the Alphabet by rote memory (first upper case, then lower case. Each case should be complete in 40 seconds. If it takes longer, handwriting speed could be the task that is keeping a student from progressing in the area of writing.)
Quick brown fox sentence or pangrams
Coping sentences
Coping sentences from dictation
Interventions: http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/writing
Interventions: Rainbow Writing
Web Resource: Handwriting Without Tears
App: Wet-Dry-Try for Capitals, Lowercase and Numbers (Handwriting without tears)
App: iWriteWords Lite
App: abcpocket lite
Spelling
Intervention: Cover Copy Compare Method
Web Resource: Spelling City
App: Word Wizard - Kids learn to spell with talking alphabets, spelling tests & fun phonics games
Sentences
Intervention: Sentence Combining
Web Resource: Silly Sentence Mixup by Florida Center for Research.
App: Rainbow Sentences
App: Sentence Builder
Typing
Intervention: Intervention Central
Web Resource: Dance Mat Typing
App: TapTyping - typing trainer