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Miles Madison

California --> Brussels --> Berlin -> Global

KG and Early Years and ES Homeroom

K-6 Literacy Coach, Curriculum Coordinator and Creator, & Mentoring Program Coordinator

Passionate about engaging young learners in literacy and developing rigorous, joyful classrooms

Email: miles@erinkentconsulting.com

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The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades by Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler, published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley Buy this book from: You may need a writing revolution in your classroom. Here's how to lead it. Expectations about student writing have changed dramatically in recent years.

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7 Teaching Principles for Effective Writing Instruction

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7 Teaching Principles for Effective Writing Instruction

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7 Teaching Principles for Effective Writing Instruction - Brookes Blog.pdf

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Strategies for teaching writing in the early grades - Podcast

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Strategies for teaching writing in the early grades - Podcast

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206: Amy Siracusano describes the Not So Simple View of Writing and explains how this model helps us make instructional decisions when teaching young writers. She also shares a variety of strategies that will help you teach students at all different stages. Lots of goodness in this episode!
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Strategies for teaching writing in the early grades - with Amy Siracusano

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206: Amy Siracusano describes the Not So Simple View of Writing and explains how this model helps us make instructional decisions when teaching young writers. S

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The Writing Revolution - the Interview: Podcast

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The Writing Revolution - the Interview: Podcast

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From July 22, 2022

The Writing Revolution authors, Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler, share a 'revolutionary' approach to writing. The best part: It begins at the sentence level AND content knowledge drives the rigor. Moreover, there is an overlap in reading, writing, and critical thinking.

What are the principles of The Writing Revolution? There are six:

1. Students need explicit instruction in writing, beginning in the early elementary grades.

2. Sentences are the building blocks of all writing.

3. When embedded in the content of the curriculum, writing instruction is a powerful teaching tool.

4. The content of the curriculum drives the rigor of the writing activities.

5. Grammar is best taught in the context of student writing.

6. The two most important phases of the writing process are planning and revising.

The Writing Revolution, Not for Profit

The Writing Revolution, The Atlantic, October 2012

Writing and cognitive load theory, Natalie Wexler

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[Listen Again] The Writing Revolution with Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler

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From July 22, 2022 The Writing Revolution authors, Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler, share a 'revolutionary' approach to writing. The best part: It begins at

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28. Dr. Steve Graham -- Reading and Writing Reciprocity, and Writing Instruction Best Practices Based on 40 Years of Research

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Episodio de podcast · To the Classroom: Conversations with Researchers & Educators · 28/11/2023 · 1 h 1 min

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Natalie Wexler on How Writing Promotes Clear Thinking | Literacy and the Science of Learning

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Episodio de podcast · The Knowledge Matters Podcast · 29/07/2025 · 29 min

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Season 3 Episode 5 | Writing is hard-and teaching writing is even harder. But science tells us it's well worth the effort, because writing flexes the mental muscles that nurture literacy and learning.

Host Natalie Wexler connects cognitive science to specific writing practices that transfer information from working to long-term memory and require students to retrieve and elaborate on that information. She's joined by psychologists John Sweller and Jeffrey Karpicke, whose research has identified effective instructional and academic strategies for teaching, learning, and lightening students' cognitive loads.

"Writing isn't just a product-it's part of the process of learning. In fact, evidence shows that having students write about what they're learning can result in dramatic cognitive benefits," Wexler says.

Learning and putting new information to use is a two-way process: students must first transfer new information from working to long-term memory. Then they must be able to remember that information by retrieving it from their memory stores. Writing supports both.

Karpicke describes an experiment in which college students read science texts in different conditions. Compared to students who read the text once, twice or created a concept map, students who read the text once and then wrote down everything they remembered, recalled significantly more about the topic a week later.

Many studies have found the same result: writing boosts memory. But not all writing has the same impact. Writing prompts that require elaboration, such as "how" or "why" questions, help expand and strengthen understanding by drawing new connections to the material. And writing is not equally effective for all students. Inexperienced writers can be so cognitively overwhelmed by the task of writing that it actually impedes learning.

Wexler explains how teachers can ease the cognitive burden on students who are learning to write. First, they can ask students to write about content they've already learned about, so they don't have to juggle new information in working memory along with the cognitive demands of writing. That approach also helps deepen students' knowledge of curriculum content.

Sweller describes how teachers also can provide opportunities for "deliberate practice," which can make foundational literacy skills automatic. For example, students who have mastered spelling rules don't have to think about spelling when they write. Higher-order writing skills never become completely automatic, but practice helps. For example, students who practice distinguishing between complete sentences and fragments, with feedback from a teacher, eventually "develop a gut sense of what makes a sentence a sentence," Wexler notes.

These processes work together to enhance student writing-which accelerates literacy and knowledge-not as an end-product, but an active part of the learning process.

This podcast is produced by the Knowledge Matters Campaign and StandardsWork. Follow the Knowledge Matters Campaign on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Search #knowledgematters to join the conversation.

Production by Tressa Versteeg. Original music and sound engineering by

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Natalie Wexler on Memory and the Writing Effect | Literacy and the Science of Learning

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Season 3 Episode 5 | Writing is hard-and teaching writing is even harder. But science tells us it's well worth the effort, because writing flexes the mental mus

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Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers

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Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers

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This practice guide was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica under contract ED-07-CO-0062.

The following research staff contributed to the guide: Cay Bradley, Virginia Knechtel, Nancy Murray, Bryce Onaran, and Cassie Pickens Jewell.

These videos were prepared by WestEd under the Doing What Works Contract (ED-PEP-11-C-0068).
All videos are based on recommendations from the WWC practice guides and are designed to complement the guides.

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teaching elementary school students to be effective writers

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WWC | Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers

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This practice guide provides four recommendations for improving elementary students’ writing. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common roadblocks. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared toward teachers, literacy coaches, and other educators who want to improve the writing of their elementary students.

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https://thinksrsd.com/articles-and-books/

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National Assessment of Educational progress. (2019). Reading assessment. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/

National Assessment of Educational Progress. (2012). The nation's report card: Writing 2011. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/main2011/2012470.asp

Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy (pp. 97-110). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

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The Writing Rope: the Strands that Are Woven into Skilled Writing

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Learn about the "writing rope" - a new model for understanding the interwoven elements that support writing. Get the basics on the five key strands and how to provide explicit instruction for each strand.

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The Writing Revolution: The Six Principles

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Presentation - Small Groups and Differentiation

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Presentation - Small Groups and Differentiation