Best Practices in Writing

  1.  All children can and should write daily.

 2.  Teachers must help students find real purposes to write.

 3.  Students need to take ownership and responsibility.

 4.  Effective writing programs involve the complete writing

    process.

 5.    Students need real audiences and a classroom context of

    shared learning

 6.  Writing should extend throughout the curriculum.

 7. Effective teachers use evaluation constructively and  

     efficiently.

 8. Teachers need to model writing.