A Classroom Teacher's Guide to Struggling Writers: How to Provide Differentiated Support and Ongoing Assessment

What do struggling writers really need? The research says they need more of what every student needs: access to high-quality writing instruction. shares a framework for teaching every child that helps you give frequent, intensive, explicit, and differentiated support to students who struggle. Curt Dudley-Marling and Patricia Paugh (coauthors of ) draw on a deep, thirty-year research base as well as classroom knowhow. Through observations of master teachers they show how the writing workshop gives you the instructional space to: Best of all, illustrates how writing workshop can increase your instructional flexibility. You'll find information to help you guide struggling writers in grades 2 through 6 in areas where they commonly need support, such as planning, fluency, audience, organization, genre, word choice, mechanics, and revision. What do your struggling readers need? Instruction that provides the support to gain independence-the kind of effective, efficient, flexible teaching you'll read about in