Writing Strategies DB Open the writing strategies intro document below and you will get a quick snapahot of how to answer question #1. Discussion Board 1. Try applying the BOW and CDO strategies, discussed in this week’s texts (1 & 3 respectively), to write a short paragraph (5-6 sentences) on the following topic: ‘Family socioeconomic status and literacy development’. You can use the web in this doc for the BOW strategy if you wish: (Text 1: Effective strategies to improve writing in middle & high school, p. 11-25) & (Text 3: Teaching Writing to Students with Learning Disabilities (stonybrook.edu) You can find the BOW streategy attachment below in a Word doc. After applying these strategies to your writing, 1) share your finished paragraph in your post, and 2) write a reflection on whether you believe this strategy was helpful to your writing process – be honest :). 2. Choose one of the writing support strategies discussed in this week’s texts, or another writing support strategy that you have researched or even use yourself, and describe how you might teach this strategy to students using the ‘Self-Regulated Strategy Development’ approach outlined in ( Text 2: Teaching Writing Strategies to Middle School Students With Disabilities)? 3. Do you think learning to express yourself in writing is important in today’s day and age? Or do tools like ‘voice to text’ make this skill less important, or even dispensable? E.C. ‘Dysgraphia’ is a specific learning disability related to the ability to write. How might you a support a student with dysgraphia on their academic writing tasks? Copy and paste into Google and its the first article 3rd Source: Teaching Writing to Students with Learning Disabilities (stonybrook.edu)
