High-Performance Writing
About the Program
Using the direct-instruction method, High-Performance Writing addresses the writing instruction needs of all students including special education and ESL students. Each unit follows a sequence of instruction and contains a complete sequence of activities to achieve a particular piece of writing. Terry Dodds, author of several other SRA direct-instruction programs including Readers and Writers, Learning Through Literature, and Language for Learning, developed the program.
Features:
- Units built around specific topics address the writing genre frequently identified in state frameworks, allowing you to target grade-appropriate writing skills.
- Straightforward lessons provide the scaffolding students need to internalize the writing process and emerge as independent writers.
- Writing and revising strategies help students incorporate the six traits of effective writing.
High-Performance Writing is a comprehensive resource that gives you ways to get your students writing right away. The lesson plans that make up each unit are based on key traits of effective writing and provide:
- Instructional practices substantiated by research
- Explicit strategies for writing
- Clear procedures for implementing those strategies
- Detailed scoring rubrics to help you assess writing objectively
- Skill instruction at points when students will use the skill in their writing
- Instruction in basic grammar and language usage
- Practice in demand-writing to develop fluency and expression
- Processes that help children produce pieces that are polished, expansive, expressive
Components:
Writing Units
- Writing Units contain placement tests, daily lesson plans and blackline masters for activities that help students develop their ideas, organization, and voice.
Writer's Guide
- Writer's Guide provides efficient review and practice of mechanics, grammar, and usage and suggestions for using technology for proofreading and publishing.
Complete Package
- Complete Packages include six Writing Units, Writer's Guide, and the Program Guide.
Program Guide
- Program Guide - a handy reference with assessment tools, writing samples, and a bibliography of children's literature to use as models.
Program Components
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High-Performance Writing Advanced Level, Expository Writing -
High-Performance Writing Advanced Level, Persuasive Writing -
High-Performance Writing Advanced Level, Program Guide -
High-Performance Writing Advanced Level, Report Writing -
High-Performance Writing Beginning Level, Expository Writing -
High-Performance Writing Beginning Level, Narrative Writing -
High-Performance Writing Beginning Level, Persuasive Writing -
High-Performance Writing Beginning Level, Report Writing -
High-Performance Writing Beginning Level, Writer's Guide -
High-Performance Writing Intermediate Level, Narrative Writing
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High-Performance Writing Beginning Level, Practical Writing
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Additional Details & Resources
Resources
Placement Tests
Beginning Level
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Intermediate Level
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Advanced Level
Instructional Objectives
Beginning Level
- Writer's Guide
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Intermediate Level
- Writer's Guide
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Advanced Level
Scope and Sequence
Beginning Level
- Writer's Guide
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Intermediate Level
- Writer's Guide
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Advanced Level
Home Letters
English
Beginning
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Intermediate Level
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Advanced Level
Spanish
Beginning
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Intermediate Level
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Advanced Level
Bibliographies of Children's Literature
Beginning Level
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Intermediate Level
- Practical Writing
- Descriptive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
- Report Writing
Advanced Level