Helping Students Learn Unknown Spelling Words
This spelling strategy is intended to help students study unknown spelling words. The students need to be trained in the study method.
These spelling strategies are centered around self-correction techniques requiring students to check and correct their own work; focusing directly on the task at hand. They are learner centered, and have been validated and replicated empirically.
Written Composition
DEFENDS (Ellis, E., & Lenz, K.)
This writing strategy is designed to aid in written compositions conveying a position. It is intended to help students write a paper defending a position. This strategy involves imbedded strategies.
HELPERS IN WRITING (Wong, B.Y.L., Butler, D.L., Ficzere, S.A., & Kuperis, S.)
This is a writing strategy designed to help students write compare-and-contrast essays. This strategy employs a planning sheet called HELPERS in Writing.
MAPPING (Simmonds, E.P.M., Luchow, J.P., Kaminsky, S., & Cottone, V.)
This writing strategy was designed to help students organize essay answers on tests, but can be used in various writing activities.
PLEASE (Welch, M., & Jensen, J.B.)
This writing strategy was developed for written expression, to assist students in planning and writing compositions using a highly structured, step-by-step procedure. This is intended to enable students to generate and organize ideas in simple paragraph form. The strategy WritePlease, is a video-assisted strategy intended to aide teachers in teaching this strategy.
POWER (Englert, C.S., Raphael, E.E., Anderson, L.M., Anthony, H.M., Fear, K.L., & Gregg, S.L.)
This writing strategy organizes all the steps in the writing process. It teaches students four different organizational structures for writing papers: stories, comparison-contrast, explanations, and problem/solution.
PROJECT (Ellis, E.S.)
This strategy is an example of how to promote effective group work.
SCORE A (Korinek, L., & Bulls, J.A.)
SCORE A is a writing strategy that covers the development of a topical research paper. It provides a concrete, sequential structure for students to develop and write papers on selected topics.
SPACE (Korinek, L., & Bulls, JA)
The SPACE strategy is the second step of a basic three-step writing strategy. It is designed to help students make a writing plan and think about the details that should be included in stories.
W-W-W, What=2; How=2 (Graham, S., Harris, K.R., & Sawyer, R.)
This is a writing strategy designed to help students ask themselves a series of "story-grammar" questions to generate narrative text.
POW+TREE (Center on Accelerated Student Learning)
This site provides lessons, mnemonic charts and graphic organizers, for the Power and Tree Strategies.
Proofreading
HOW (Archer, A., & Gleason, M.)
This writing strategy is designed to help students complete neat, well-organized papers that include a heading. This strategy is part of a larger strategy intended to help students complete assignments accurately and on time.
WRITER (Schumaker, J.B., Nolan, S.M., & Deshler, D.D.)
This is a self-monitoring strategy for writing. Almost every academic task requires a level or form of monitoring. This strategy illustrates how a step can cue students to use questioning strategies to monitor product quality.
