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Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)
SRSD helps students develop essential skills in planning, organising, and revising their work, by making the process accessible, engaging, and achievable. With SRSD, teachers gain a powerful method to support their students in becoming more skilled, motivated, and self-sufficient writers.
The Syntax Project - Ochre Education
This scope and sequence should be used with the text The Writing Revolution (TWR) (Hochman & Wexler, 2017).
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WELLIES presentation 2024 - Syntax Project in Action, a practitioners story
Shared by Sarah Peck - Wellington
An overview of purposeful writing tasks that apply to teaching any genre, before covering relevant teacher knowledge, including for teaching specific genres – narrative texts, reports and persuasive writing.
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Empirical evidence-based approach to teaching writing across primary school years.
How to practically and easily transfer scientific based evidence into the classroom.
Covering the underlying subskills of learning to write – text generation, transcription and self-regulation.
Transcription skills – Guide for teaching spelling and handwriting.
Translation skills – Practical recommendations for teaching vocabulary and sentence structure.
Writing lessons – Presenting the Fast Feedback approach.
Contexts for writing.
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Source: Literacy@Massey
This is a teacher resource to support the effective use of picturebooks in a shared or interactive read aloud. Built from Dr Christine Braid’s study in the Diploma of Children’s Literature.
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The book is in three parts:
the working elements;
applying the knowledge to lessons; and
example lesson plans.
It also includes a booklist (a start) of some titles considered classics.