BHS ELA Instructional Guide

5. Teach Critical Skills, Processes, and Knowledge

Specifc strategy instruction on the characteristics and components of good writing via modeling, explanation, and guided practice.

Description:

Rationale:

Writers learn a process in one genre that is largely transferable to other genres.

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Best Practices

Critical Components

● Tap into prior knowledge ● Provide students with a step-by-step structure for engaging the writing process ● Use collaborative writing strategies with students ● Model by writing with students ● “Read, Analyze, Imitate. If students can identify strategies, they can begin to use them.” Kelly Gallagher ○ Read the mentor text ○ Analyze the writing moves ○ Try the moves in your own writing

Scaffold writing using learning progressions

Provide mentor texts for students to model their writing after

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Last Updated August 13, 2024

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