Writing Across the Curriculum

Slide 1:Tiger Team Writing Across the Curriculum

Slide 2: What Should a School District Do To Teach Students To Write?

Slide 3:1) First, a school should commit to teaching students to plan, draft and revise. When students are taught to plan, draft and revise in a self-regulated fashion, their writing improves a great deal (Graham, 2006).

Slide 4:2) Second, starting the process will be slow. Teachers and administrators should recognize that it will take years for the staff to become confident teaching the full range of plan-draft- revise strategies such as found in sources such as Graham and Harris (2005), so the only sensible model of professional development is one that occurs over years (Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Graham, S., MacArthur, Charles, and Fitzgerald, Jill, 2007).

Slide 5:3) Third, children’s writing improves through instruction and practice, occurring