Writing expert William Van Cleave explains that children need direct and explicit handwriting instruction in order to link letter names, the way letters look, and their sounds.
Students are encouraged to use a variety of resources and writing tools during Writers’ Workshop and writing conferences, including word spacers and the word wall.
Discussing different strategies to revise written work and modeling how to add detail to the middle of a piece of writing helps students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composition.
