Gary A. Troia

This unique book focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. Prominent experts illuminate the nature of writing difficulties and offer practical suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence, and text levels. Topics include writing workshop instruction; strategies to support the writing process, motivation, and self-regulation; composing in the content areas; classroom technologies; spelling instruction for diverse learners; and assessment approaches. Every chapter is grounded in research and geared to the real-world needs of inservice and preservice teachers in general and special education settings.

Evidence-Based Practices

Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers

What are the most effective methods for teaching writing across grade levels and student populations? What kind of training do teachers need to put research-validated methods into practice? This unique volume combines the latest writing research with clear-cut recommendations for designing high-quality professional development efforts. Prominent authorities describe ways to help teachers succeed by using peer coaching, cross-disciplinary collaboration, lesson study, and other professional development models. All aspects of instruction and assessment are addressed, including high-stakes writing assessments, applications of technology, motivational issues, writing in different genres and subject areas, and teaching struggling writers.

Applications for Teacher Professional Development

Putting Writing Research Into Practice

Steve Graham

This special issue examines four critical aspects of writing instruction for students with disabilities: prevention, classroom practice, instruction, and assessment. The first article addresses writing strategy instruction for young students at risk for long-term writing difficulties. Next special and general education middle school educators' epistemology is explored regarding writing development and instruction, their self-reported teaching practices, and the challenges they faced as they strive to teach middle school students how to effectively use writing as a communicative medium and learning tool. The third, article reviews and critiques state writing standards and describes an instructional plan to help students with disabilities and other struggling writers master composing strategies and processes that may equip them to meet state standards in writing. Finally, a review is presented of the extant research on various methods of writing assessment, including holistic, primary trait, and analytic scoring methods, with particular emphasis on Curriculum-Based Measurement--an assessment technique well suited for children and youth in special education.

Prevention, Practice, Intervention, and Assessment:a Special Issue of exceptionality

Students Who Are Exceptional and Writing Disabilities

Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-based Practices. Challenges in Language and Literacy

Froma P. Roth

Colleen K. Worthington

PASS leads to reading! It is the first-ever, research-based, phonological awareness program for preschoolers that extends to early elementary-aged children. It is aligned to state and national standards, including the common core standards for English Language Arts. Goldie the Dog is the program mascot—she makes it all really fun! Goldie is an engaging puppy hand-puppet that will motivate your young students to rhyme, segment and blend syllables, and segment and blend phonemes—the phonological awareness skills that lead to early literacy skills. Six distinct research studies have demonstrated that direct instruction using PASS—which includes 3 units of instruction (Rhyming, Blending, and Segmentation) and 76 lessons of instruction—has a significant positive effect on childrenâ€™s development of phonological awareness skills. PASS explicitly addresses national Head Start and state Preschool Learning Fundamentals outcomes in the areas of Language and Literacy and supports development in outcomes for Social and Emotional Development, Approaches to Learning, Creative Arts Expression, and Physical Development and Health. The complete PASS kit includes: Three spiralbound Teacherâ€™s Guides: Rhyming, Blending, Segmentation Spiralbound Student Flip Book Spiralbound Implementation Guide Goldie the puppy puppet 9 storybooks 7 game boards with game pieces 380 game cards Miscellaneous manipulative materials based on a puppy theme PDFs on CD-ROM

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