Practice Guide
Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively
This practice guide presents three evidence-based recommendations for helping students in grades 6–12 develop effective writing skills. Each recommendation includes specific, actionable guidance for educators on implementing practices in their classrooms. The guide also summarizes and rates the evidence supporting each recommendation, describes examples to use in class, and offers the panel’s advice on how to overcome potential implementation obstacles. This guide is geared towards administrators and teachers in all disciplines who want to help improve their students’ writing.
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Topics: Grades:
Topics: Grades:
Audience:
- Administrators
- Parent/Family
- School Specialist
- Teacher
This practice guide was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica under contract ED-IES-13-C-0010.
The following research staff contributed to the guide: Julie Bruch, Joshua Furgeson, Julia Lyskawa, and Claire Smither Wulsin.
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Steve Graham
(Chair)
Arizona State University -
Jill Fitzgerald
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/MetaMetrics -
Linda D. Friedrich
The National Writing Project
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Katie Greene
Forsyth County Schools, Georgia -
James S. Kim
Harvard University -
Carol Booth Olson
University of California, Irvine
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Strategies for Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively
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This Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southwest infographic features tips to support students in grades 6–12 from the WWC practice guide Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively.
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The presenters cover key recommendations for improving the writing of secondary school students and describe how to overcome challenges when implementing the recommended practices.
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Strategies for Improving Secondary Students Writing Skills: Lessons from the Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively Practice Guide
The presenters cover key recommendations for improving the writing of secondary school students and describe how to overcome challenges when implementing the recommended practices.
This protocol guided the review of research that informed the recommendations contained in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively, published in November 2016.
