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Instructional Strategies
The Topic T-Chart Strategy
A fun and easy way to choose good writing topics guaranteed to solve the "I don't know what to write about!" problem.
What's a Good Idea?
How do you know the ideas you've generated are good things to write about? Here's a strategy that tells you.
The What-Why-How Strategy
A powerful tool for helping you explain your thinking and support logical arguments. Perfect for expository and persuasive writing.
The Idea-Details Strategy
A very simple strategy that is much more powerful than it looks. It will help you add details but it can also be used to create entire pieces of writing all by itself.
The Tell-Show Srategy
A great strategy for adding rich, descriptive detail. Helps writers bring a strong visual component to their work.
The Transition-Action-Details Strategy
A perfect strategy for narrative sequencing. Also works well for summaries and procedural writing of all kinds including step-by-step instructions.
The Draw-Label-Caption Strategy
A simple strategy involving drawing that will help you capture a scene and focus on important details.
The Action-Feelings-Setting Strategy
A great tool for helping you describe a scene in a narrative with effective detail. Also makes a great introduction to paragraph writing.
The Content-Purpose-Audience Strategy
A powerful, comprehensive strategy you can use to plan an entire piece or to identify areas in a draft that need revision.
Great Beginnings
A large collection of strategies for helping you produce great beginnings. Includes samples of more than 25 types of leads.
Effective Endings
A large set of excellent strategies for creating effective endings in many different types of writing.
The Five Big Questions
A terrific questioning strategy that can be used for revision.
Research Strategies
Powerful tools and interesting ideas for improving research projects.
How Long Does It Have To Be?
A set of ideas and a simple assessment tool for helping figure when they’re finished with a piece of writing — and when they’re not!
Beating Writer’s Block
A set of simple strategies all writers can use to get themselves unstuck.
Conferencing Tips
Great ideas to improve teacher-student conferences during writing.
Sharing Tips
Simple recommendations for making sharing valuable for author and audience alike.
The Five Facts of Fiction
The Five Facts of Fiction is a set of strategies for helping students improve both their reading and writing of fiction. It is especially helpful in realistic fiction but works well for all sub-genres.
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