Improving Student Writing Skills - cse crafts

Introduction
As a writing teacher, you will need to make many
choices. What will your classroom look like? What
will you teach? How will you assess students’ writing?
There are many options, ranging from a book-centered
approach that depends solely on direct instruction, to a
writing workshop, in which students sit on couches and
freewrite to the exclusion of instruction. Your preferences
(and those of your district) likely fall somewhere
between these two extremes and might use elements of
each.
Also, teachers are becoming increasingly aware of the
need to differentiate their instruction to meet the needs
of diverse learners. Differentiation can be difficult—you
will need to find ways to teach different skills in different
ways to students with varying learning styles and
abilities.
Finally, once you have a stack of finished assignments,
what will you do with them? Experienced educators
know that these assignments provide a useful window
into students’ skills, and that by assessing these assignments
with a system that pinpoints the areas of strength
and weakness, we can help students practice the areas
where they need work.
It can be a little overwhelming at first. That is why this
book gathers, as concisely as possible, today’s proven
best-practices in one place.
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