Sentence Writing Intervention for At-Risk Writers in Upper Elementary Grades

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2021

Department

Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education

School

Education

Abstract

Fluent production of a variety of grammatically correct sentences is essential to overall writing quality across genres. Sentence-production skills become increasingly important as students prepare to transition from the elementary grades to middle-school. Many students in the upper-elementary grades, however, struggle with sentence production skills—especially writers with a learning disability. This paper provides useful information for educators focusing on improving the quality of sentence-level writing skills for students with learning disabilities in Grades 3–5. Specifically, guidance is provided for using (a) assessment to inform sentence-level intervention and (b) a sequence of instructional practices for improving foundational sentence-level production skills.

Publication Title

Learning Disabilities Research and Practice

Volume

36

Issue

4

First Page

367

Last Page

379

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