Not happy with the writing quality of your students? Need direct instruction strategies that can be used throughout the day to increase student skills? Step Up to Writing can help you teach:
• Writing to Improve Comprehension Strategies – Summarizing, Responses, Quick Sketch, Note-taking, and Creating Bookmarks
• Foundational Skills – Sentence Variety, Perfect Paragraphs, Short Essays, and Conventions
• Vocabulary
• Informative, Opinion/Argumentative, and Story Writing – Planning, Color-coding, Introductions, Transitions, Conclusions and Story Elements