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Practice Guide
This practice guide provides four recommendations for improving elementary students’ writing. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common roadblocks. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared toward teachers, literacy coaches, and other educators who want to improve the writing of their elementary students.
Teach students to become fluent with handwriting, spelling, sentence construction, typing, and word processing.
This practice guide was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica under contract ED-07-CO-0062.
The following research staff contributed to the guide: Cay Bradley, Virginia Knechtel, Nancy Murray, Bryce Onaran, and Cassie Pickens Jewell.
These videos were prepared by WestEd under the Doing What Works Contract (ED-PEP-11-C-0068).
All videos are based on recommendations from the WWC practice guides and are designed to complement the guides.
Play an interview of Panel Chair, Steve Graham: Writing as a Thinking Activity (6:09 minutes)
What Works Clearinghouse released a webinar for educators on evidence-based practices to support math, reading, and writing instruction, as well as instructional resources to share with parents and ca.
What Works Clearinghouse released a webinar for educators on evidence-based practices to support math, reading, and writing instruction, as well as instructional resources to share with parents and ca.
November 13, 2020
This REL West video depicts an online writing lesson for kindergarteners and first graders. The lesson and strategies align with recommendations from the Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effe.
This infographic provides examples from two practice guides about elementary school instruction in writing that can be implemented for free or at a low cost in remote learning settings.
This eight-page set of instructional tips translates practice guide recommendations into actionable approaches that educators can try in their classrooms.
The practice guide is accompanied by instructional tips, a summary of evidence for the instructional tips, and a practice guide summary. Click below to access any of the available resources.
This protocol guided the review of research that informed the recommendations contained in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers, published in June 2012.
