Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4–8

Book excerpt: Short lessons with a big impact! Respond to your writers' needs with mini-lessons that will improve their craft and confidence. From the start, the I Can! chapter sets up writers to know what they can do, by learning to note and record their own strengths. Every chapter models strategies that foster students' self-regulated, independent writing, and includes adaptations that show how to adjust teaching for advanced writers, writers who struggle, English language learners, and extending the strategies across content areas. Each mini-lesson is laid out step by step for ease of use, including sections on: materials needed; modeling the lesson; student practice; and independent writing.