• graphics/visuals/organizers
• life experiences and background knowledge
• projects broken into a series of steps
• to be taught how to write effective beginnings
• to be taught how to write effective endings
• to be taught how to add description
• time to draw and write
• writing celebrations
• word banks
• rubrics
• checklists
• goals for improving
• interesting writing supplies
• more intensive, explicit instruction in skills and strategies (not in place of writing though)
• need self-regulation strategies
• need frequent and direct feedback and regular monitoring
• need to build fluency
• skills practice with immediate application in a meaningful writing task

We must do all we can to reach our students. They will learn to write by writing.