SQWrite is a one-of-a-kind, research-based approach to writing that combines executive functioning skills with a unique self-questioning technique to give students the tools to become effective, organized, and self-reliant writers.
Executive functioning skills of self-questioning and whole-to-part analysis • Development of writing including main topic, extended topic, subtopics, introductory phrases, background information, subtopics details, detail bridges, detail evidence, and conclusion • Essay writing across the curriculum
All students in Grades 4+; can be adapted for use with younger students.
Format: Printed materials
Teacher Kit: 1 spiral-bound Teacher Guide bundled with 1 Student Kit, 1 Thought Organizer Tablet, 2 webinars for 1 person. Student Kit: 1 Student Workbook with built-in folder, 2 Thought Organizers, 1 Q Card, 1 Individualized Editing Booklet
Develop independent writers with this executive functioning writing curriculum. With SQWrite, your students learn executive functioning skills that become a part of their repertoire and enable them to manage writing tasks in all subject areas. SQWrite employs a simple, yet powerful process that can be used in all tiers of instruction to help students become self-reliant writers who create high-quality writing products that meet and exceed Common Core State Standards.
With SQWrite, your students apply a self-questioning process, generate ideas and answers on a simple yet powerful Thought Organizer, rehearse answers and convert them into complete, well-structured sentences. The results: students write detailed and organized essays, every time!
Perfect as a classroom writing curriculum as well as for differentiated writing interventions. The SQWrite Teacher Guide provides explicit skill-building instruction to teach key executive functioning processes, followed by step-by-step instruction in building essays. A student workbook contains both skill-building and essay worksheets that guide student writing. With this tool, students self-monitor their writing, ensuring that they will finish with detailed, complete essays. The Thought Organizer provides a visual record of the student’s ideas while decreasing working memory loads. The Q Card provides prompts to help students formulate self-questions at strategically placed points in the Though Organizer. With practice, students internalize the steps in formulating the self-questions necessary to create high-quality written work.
SQWrite Teacher Kit • Product Code: SQW_TK
Price: $259
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