Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

responsibility can help students select and 

implement strategies independently.

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2.  Provide students with opportunities to apply and practice modeled strategies.

Incorporate regular opportunities to practice 

implementing writing strategies into class-

room activities. These opportunities can 

occur across disciplines to allow students 

to practice their writing for different topics, 

audiences, purposes, and tasks. Example 

1.10 illustrates how modeling and practicing 

writing strategies could span different disci-

plines. Each activity illustrated can be easily 

adapted for use in different discipline. For 

example, the English language arts activities 

could be used in any disciplines to model 

planning for a writing assignment.