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Essentials for Writing

In this program, explicit instruction and daily writing assignments ensure that students structure their thinking and learning strategies for writing tasks.

Essentials for Writing

In this program, explicit instruction and daily writing assignments ensure that students structure their thinking and learning strategies for writing tasks.

About the program

Grade Levels: 6 - Adult 

Essentials for Writing has been shaped through extensive field testing and revision to ensure that lessons address the problems students typically encounter. The program is specifically designed to help middle/high school students write with clarity, purpose and care. Systematic, explicit instruction and daily writing assignements ensure that students focus and structure their thinking, as well as learn strategies for accomplishing specific types of writing tasks.

  • Detailed lessons provide the improved structure and instructional strategies needed to teach writing effectively. 
  • Skill introduction is carefully sequenced and coupled with continuous review to ensure that students can easily complete writing assignments.
  • A variety of stimulating writing prompts encourages students to find personal meaning in writing
  • Cumulative skills development and ongoing success improve student confidence

The program features 95 lessons structured for a 55 minute class schedule. Core components of the program include the Teacher Materials and the Student Textbook. 

 

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Key Features

Helps students to:

  • Grasp the basics of grammar, language use, and mechanics
  • Acquire the skills needed to become more precise and detailed in their writing
  • Produce written work that contains pertinent and well-developed ideas, supporting examples, and appropriate details
  • Increase achievement and experience real, long-term growth in their writing competencies
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Research & Success

Using Expressive Writing and Essentials for Writing to Meet the Needs of Secondary Students: Both English Only and English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities
The purpose of this paper is to make the connection between the research and the practices found in two programs, SRA Expressive Writing (Engelmann & Silbert, 1983) and SRA Essentials for Writing (Engelmann & Grossen, 2010), as affects secondary students with disabilities, whether English-only (EO) or English language learners.