The Science of Writing: How Students Learn to Write

Explain what the Science of Writing is and describe how it is grounded in decades of research on how students learn to write, rather than in programs or writing philosophies.
Use the Writing Rope to describe the components of skilled writing, including transcription, sentence-level skills, text structure, and executive functions, and explain how these components develop over time.
Analyze writing instruction to identify strengths and gaps related to sentence construction, syntax, text structure, and explicit instruction.
Apply evidence-based principles of explicit writing instruction to support sentence construction, text organization, and idea development.
Describe how explicit, systematic writing instruction supports reading comprehension and content learning, particularly for developing and struggling writers.

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