Describes a writing program that uses lay readers from the community to help correct student writing assignments and instruct in writing skills. (IRT)

The author describes the writing skills lab program in her junior high school. (DS)

Describes a one-day Exemplary Writers' Workshop designed to recognize the writing products of secondary students. Lists workshop goals: providing students with opportunities to interact with professional writers; letting students interact with higher education faculty; and providing students with information about becoming a published writer. (RS)

Programs using innovative methods to teach expository writing are described. Common approaches that these programs utilized to demystify writing--e.g., partitioning the writing task into stages, using peers to provide feedback--are examined. The article concludes with a discussion of other trends in the teaching of writing. (RM)

A high school teacher from Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, describes a record keeping system used by history teachers to evaluate their students' writing skills. The data recorded by the system can be used in a variety of ways to improve student performance. (Author/RM)

Describes NEWSCAMP, a two-week summer program for middle- and high-school students, which aims to strengthen writing skills through the use of journalistic techniques. (SR)

This document describes the development of the language skills subprogram of the Hawaii English Program--Secondary. After considering various theories of instructional strategies in language, the team developed a pair of complementary subprograms: a part-to-whole skills lab for building up students' stocks of language options and a whole-to-part…

Designed with real teachers and real conditions in mind, this booklet presents a model for a writing-across-the-curriculum/writing-to-learn program that can be used in all classrooms in all subject areas from grades 4 to 12. The model presented in the booklet defines five types of writing assignments and the outcomes expected for each--using…

This pamphlet describes the Kentucky Statewide Writing Program, initiated in 1986 by then-Governor Martha Layne Collins and the Kentucky General Assembly to create student and teacher interest in learning to write and developing writing skills. Following an introduction to the program and background information, the pamphlet describes the four…

Describes a collaborative effort among New York high school and college teachers, administrators, and students to improve writing skills. Discusses the project format and the writing/reading and writing instruction principles underlying the program. (HTH)

Designed for middle or high school students in Marlboro Township, Marlboro, New Jersey, the teen authors program involves students in the writing, editing, illustration and "publication" of children's books. The instructional unit takes 2 to 3 weeks to complete and culminates with an "author's day" where the student authors…

Describes the Washington State University Writing Project, drawing attention to those features that differ from the Bay Area Writing Project model. Highlights how the Washington model promoted institutionalization of the inservice gains of the project participants. (HOD)

The detailed method for teaching writing presented in this book consists of a highly structured program of grammar, usage, and composition, using a modified Skinnerian, easy-to-difficult technique. The first part of the book contains five chapters which discuss the problem of teaching writing, reasons for studying grammar, which grammar should be…

The program outlined in this document suggests that all secondary school students have continuous composing experiences in four major areas of written discourse: sensory/descriptive, imaginative/narrative, practical/informative, and analytical/expository. This document contains a chart detailing a plan of instruction in written composition for…

In contrast to many books that outline in a general way the "best" method for teaching composition and that suggest a few exercises to implement it, this guidebook on expository writing attempts to be comprehensive and emphasizes practicality. Chapters deal with how to organize a composition program, how to mark student papers, and how to teach…