The New Art and Science of Teaching: Writing

Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills

Use effective teaching methods to reach desired writing learning outcomes and student success:

• Understand which instructional strategies are best suited to teaching writing skills, and gain specific examples for implementing these strategies.
• Learn how to utilise general and specific strategies to improve the learning environment of the classroom and obtain desired student learning outcomes for writing.
• Fine-tune your writing curriculum to achieve student success by developing and assessing writing skills with the book's instructional techniques.
• Examine samples of writing rubrics, proficiency scales and checklists, and learn effective teaching methods to use them as assessment and instructional tools.
• Utilise an advance organiser as a quick reference of all strategies to assist you in designing writing curriculum and planning lessons.
• Access and download free reproducible activities, rubrics for assessing student writing, writing assessment examples, writing checklists and more for classroom use.