Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

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A rubric is an assessment tool. Rubrics typically include a set of criteria for assessing performance on 

written assignments, allowing for standardized evaluation according to the specified criteria. Rubrics 

can be used by teachers to evaluate student work, or by students for self-evaluation and/or peer review.

Glossary 

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A writing strategy is a series of actions (mental, physical, or both) that writers undertake to achieve 

their goals. Strategies are tools that can help students generate content and carry out components 

of the writing process.

Strategic thinking refers to students’ intentional thinking about how to approach a problem or 

achieve a goal.

Syntactical combinations are the patterns, structures, and formations of sentences or phrases used 

in writing.