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I program that I have found success with is REWARDS Plus that develops writing skills using nonfiction social studies passages.  I use this program with my middle school students and love the scaffolding that the program provides.  The students are able to practice reading fluency and comprehension in preparation for expository writing.  The program clearly outlines steps for the students to take to develop their writing and includes a peer and teacher editing component.  There are easy to follow rubric guidelines for students to follow as they edit one another's writing.  I really think that the editing process is so important because it forces students to be analytical about their own work and allows for feedback before completing a final product.  It also gives plenty of examples so that students can visually see what the expectations are for quality expository writing.

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Increase students' fluency, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension skills Increase student success in content-area classes.

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I use imitative writing tasks with my pre-K students. We work on tracing and copying names, shapes, letters, and other pre-writing strokes. For some of my students, I assess their letter formation (not provided with a model).

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We currently use the Lucy Caulkins materials to aide in teaching writing.  I have found student friendly checklists that I use to help students achieve their goals and the learning targets addressed in each rubric.  We use these to guide our conferencing and set student goals.

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One idea for applying the principles of the chapter to a writing assessment:

Several dual language teachers in my school have adopted dictation (or "dictado") as a practice for teaching and assessing writing.  Here are some resources to learn more!

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/dictation

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An additional resource that I have found to be very helpful in scaffolding students in the writing of summaries is "Somebody Wanted But So Then".  A sample organizer is attached.