Toolbox Ssd Strategies

“Writing should function to communicate or to foster the writers’ own learning, understanding, or appreciation” (Graves, M. F., Juel, C., Graves, B. B., & Dewitz, P., 2010, p.374). Teachers should have a classroom environment where students can use written words and are encouraged to take risks in their writing while the teacher supports all of their attempts. In addition, “writing strategies should be taught explicitly and directly through a gradual release of responsibility from teacher to student” (Graham, S., 2015). Many students have the same struggles as Kaynia when writing a persuasive paper such as, putting their thoughts onto paper. By providing different strategies to help each student gain an understanding of how to put their
This strategy has two mnemonics components, which are designed to emphasize reflection and planning” (ICS). In this strategy students, will take the following steps: Suspend judgement, Take a side, Organize your ideas, Plan more as you write, Develop a topic sentence, Add supporting ideas, Reject the other side, and End with conclusion (Teacher Toolbox SRSD Strategies, n.d.). For this strategy teachers, should remind their students that these types of strategies are guides to help them to improve upon their writing. The teacher can check for understanding with this strategy by monitoring her progress, behaviors, pre-during, and post-strategy instruction. This strategy can help Kaynia meet her goal by planning and organizing her thoughts as she writes in using a planning think sheet while writing her essay and making additions and modifications as needed prior to her final draft. In addition, the teacher should model collaborative practice and instruction throughout the writing process. Providing students with feedback, prompting and guidance, use cue cards (listing the steps for STOP and DARE) and so forth to help them achieve their goals (De Le Paz, S.,
Planning and organizing is a great strategy. This strategy teachers can provide students with a topic and have them research it by planning and organizing how they want it to be written. The planning and organizing strategy can be combined with the POW+TREE strategy to better help struggling