- 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.