According to a study done by Achieve Inc. in 2005, fifty percent of students that graduate high school are not prepared for college-level writing (Santrock, 2011, 370). While this lack of preparedness roots all the way back to the beginning of learning how to write, a great deal of knowledge about becoming a better writer can be learned in high school English classes if the teachers apply different writing techniques. In chapter eleven of John Santrock’s textbook Educational Psychology and Sharon Zumbrunn and Keegan Krause’s article “Conversations with Leaders: Principles of Effective Writing Instruction” many best practices for teaching writing are given in hopes to provide teachers with numerous ways to teach their students to become better
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Writing proficiency is below grade levels across the country; therefore, teaching practices must be a concern when looking to improve students’ writing abilities. This article mentions something that Santrock also stated, finding effective ways to teach writing can be difficult because students are all at different skill levels. (Zumbrunn and Krause, 2012, 346). To determine the best way to teach writing, interviews were done with important authorities in the area of writing who concluded …show more content…
Combined with the best practices that Santrock gave, there are numerous ways to have students increase their writing abilities to be ready for college and whatever they may find in their future. In Santrock’s Educational Psychology and Zumbrunn and Krause’s article “Conversations with Leaders: Principles of Effective Writing Instruction,” best practices for writing in the secondary English setting are provided for teachers in order to aid in their student’s progress of learning the skill of writing. Thomas Newkirk stated “The house of literacy has a thousand doors, and all you have to do is find one of them. One way in. One book. One kind of assignment. It could be cartooning. It could be a graphic novel. You just need one” (Strumbrunn and Krause, 2012,
Writing proficiency is below grade levels across the country; therefore, teaching practices must be a concern when looking to improve students’ writing abilities. This article mentions something that Santrock also stated, finding effective ways to teach writing can be difficult because students are all at different skill levels. (Zumbrunn and Krause, 2012, 346). To determine the best way to teach writing, interviews were done with important authorities in the area of writing who concluded …show more content…
Combined with the best practices that Santrock gave, there are numerous ways to have students increase their writing abilities to be ready for college and whatever they may find in their future. In Santrock’s Educational Psychology and Zumbrunn and Krause’s article “Conversations with Leaders: Principles of Effective Writing Instruction,” best practices for writing in the secondary English setting are provided for teachers in order to aid in their student’s progress of learning the skill of writing. Thomas Newkirk stated “The house of literacy has a thousand doors, and all you have to do is find one of them. One way in. One book. One kind of assignment. It could be cartooning. It could be a graphic novel. You just need one” (Strumbrunn and Krause, 2012,