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The Write Turn®
www.thewriteturndc.com The Write Turn® provides evidence-based strategies and instructional methods that guide students through the writing process and go beyond a typical writer’s workshop. Strategies include the FIX Strategy for revising and self-regulation, which helps students make “meaningful changes” that improve the quality of their stories and essays. Students consistently benefit from this explicit instruction as they learn to incorporate strategies into the writing process and generalize these strategies into the classroom curriculum. **INTERACTIVE WORKBOOKS LAUNCHING IN SEPTEMBER: The Write Turn will be launching the first-of-their-kind interactive student workbooks. These workbooks give teachers a unique platform to collaborate with students while providing explicit writing instruction; both in person and online. More importantly, students will be able to master the writing process (brainstorming, organizing, writing and revising) with greater ease and fluidity. The Write Turn provides educators with the tools they need to help their students become more proficient writers. A one-day seminar provides:
• Explicit strategy instruction for revising and self-regulation (The FIX Strategy) • Explicit strategy instruction for brainstorming and categorizing ideas • Explicit strategy instruction for annotating text and using annotations in essays • Mnemonics and graphic organizers that help students transform their ideas into
detailed sentences and paragraphs • Hands-on training and worksheets for every genre (narrative, explanatory,
persuasive and informative) • Detailed lesson plans that meet the Common Core State Standards and guide
students through the writing process • Access to FIX Strategy interactive student workbooks** • Options for continued online materials
Students are introduced to strategies that improve the quality of their writing through:
• Planning, writing, and revising skills (The FIX Strategy) • Brainstorming, categorization, and organizational skills • Language processing skills that improve sentence/paragraph writing • Annotating text and writing more detailed and complex topic sentences • Sentence-combining & writing grammatically correct sentences • Internalizing writing and self-regulation strategies
www.thewriteturndc.com [email protected] 202-892-3869
Pre- and post-instruction data recently collected from students.
Average # of words/story
Average # of words/essay
Average # of revisions
Overall Quality (scale of 1-5)
Pre- instruction
112 81 0.41 2.3
Post- instruction
348 397 23 4.4
