The Writing Rope: Explicit Writing Instruction Framework

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive approach to writing instruction, aligned with IDA’s Structured Literacy approach and based on the latest research. The Writing Rope framework, developed by Joan Sedita, integrates critical thinking, syntax, text structure, writing craft, and transcription into a comprehensive writing curriculum for Grades 4-8. Teachers will receive crystal-clear guidelines for helping students learn to write and write to learn across academic content areas, along with dozens of templates, handouts, and other resources for designing and delivering explicit, high-quality writing instruction.

This invaluable planning guide will help teachers apply the science of reading to the skill of writing, allowing students to master a critically important aspect of literacy. Teachers will learn the fundamentals of effective writing instruction and gain research-based background knowledge about writing development and the five components of the Writing Rope framework. They will also learn how to apply evidence-based practices in the classroom to teach essential skills for proficient writing, as well as strategies for each stage of the writing process, syntactic awareness and sentence writing, paragraph writing, and structuring different types of text.

In addition to teaching students how to use writing to enhance their learning across different content areas, teachers will also learn how to plan effective writing assignments in different content areas and explicitly teach students skills for summarizing texts and writing about narrative and expository text.

Practical materials provided in the book include classroom activities, Connect to Your Classroom questions, suggestions for scaffolding, a Writing Assignment Guide to use with any grade or content area, and 40+ reproducible instructional resources for students and teachers. With this comprehensive and evidence-based approach, teachers will have all the tools they need to deliver high-quality writing instruction and help students become proficient and confident writers.

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