Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) instruction

1. Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) instruction Harris, K, Graham, S, Mason, L. & Friedlander, B. (2008). Powerful writing strategies for all students. Baltimore, MD: Brookes.

2. Objectives • Describe how self-regulated strategy development can support struggling writers. • Name strategies for teaching informational writing, narrative, and revising. • Identify how writing instruction can embed self-regulation.

3. Agenda • What is a struggling writer? • What does the research says works for struggling writers? • Self-Regulated Strategy Development • Writing Strategies • Informational • Narrative • Revising • How to Teach the Strategies • Self-Monitoring

4. Let’s Try This! • 30 seconds to plan • 3 minutes to write • Write about your most memorable school year.

5. Let’s Try This! • 30 seconds to plan • 3 minutes to write

6. A Few New Rules • Include a period after ever 5th word. • Puts quotations marks around every “verb.” • Capitalize every five letter word. • Spell every four letter word backward. Also, you MUST write with your non-dominant hand.

7. Let’s Try This! • 30 seconds to plan • 3 minutes to write • An Inspirational Person in your life. • Remember the rules.

9. Struggling Writers Strengths Challenges

10. Informational Writing Assignment Students will select a state gems or minerals (quartz, amethyst, etc.) or a mineral that is native to their region. They will use various internet and nonfiction resources to gather information and write a report about their mineral or gem. Their reports will include: where the mineral is found, a description of its physical attributes, and its uses.

11. Informational Paper 1

12. InformationalPaper 2

13. Informational Paper 3

14. Informational Paper 4

15. The Challenge of Helping Struggling Writers • Generating content: • Struggling writers do not know how to access what they know in writing • They do not have as much difficulty when given the opportunity to “say” rather than “write” what they know • Making revisions • Less than 20% of revisions made by struggling writers change the original text • Revisions tend to focus on word substitution, mechanical errors, or a neater product because these “rules” are concrete and accessible.

16. Why Do Students Struggle? • Struggling writers do not respond to the abstract terms that are a part of the writing process (brainstorm, plan, draft, and revise), even though they have received writing instruction.

17. Recommendations • Strategy instruction has a high evidence base • Teach the writing process • The planning step is often short-changed • Revising and editing are challenging • Time needs to be allocated to writing instruction • Writing experiences should be purposeful and offer variety • Research supports the Self-Regulated Strategy Development Model

18. Philosophy of the Self-regulated Strategy Development Strategy • Provides struggling writers with specific, concrete strategies • Helps students by providing concrete models for “what has to happen in the mind”

19. Review of research supporting SRSD • Over 40 studies using the SRSD model of instruction have been reported (elementary through high school) • Significant findings in four main aspects of student performance: • Quality of writing • Knowledge of writing • Approach to writing • Self-efficacy • Meaningful improvements found with average-to-better writers, as well as students who score at or below the 25th percentile on writing measures • Research based practice according to CEC’s Evidence Based Practices Identification Criteria

20. “Pros” of the strategy • Little to no start up cost • Materials readily available • “transparency” of the materials • Systematic, explicit, and consistent implementation strategy for teaching

21. “Cons” of the strategy • Sheer number of strategies • Newness of strategy; many teachers may be unfamiliar with approach • Does not specifically teach mechanics of writing

22. Target Audience • Wide range of students from “average-to-better” writers, as well as students who score at or below the 25th percentile on writing measures • Can be effective in one-to-one, small group, or inclusive classroom instructional setting

23. Stages of Instruction Develop Background Knowledge Discuss It Model It Memorize It Support It Independent Performance

24. Student Assessment Prior toImplementation • Assessment is integrated in steps of implementation: • Stage 1: Develop background knowledge (can assess preskills here) • Stage 2: Discuss it • Stage 3: Model it (think alouds) • Stage 4: Memorize it • Stage 5: Support it (use scaffolding; critical and longest stage) • Stage 6: Independent performance (goal: “covert” self-instruction)

25. A Metascript of Instructional Stages in Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) Step 1: Activate and Develop Background Knowledge • Discuss the characteristics of good writing. • Teach text structure for genre to be developed • Develop the vocabulary of the genre. • Introduce the mnemonic for the strategy. • Use a mentor text in the genre being address to develop relevant vocabulary, genre knowledge, and writing techniques.

26. Step 2: Discuss It • Introduce the strategy to be taught and discuss its benefits and applications. • Practice finding the genre-specific elements in different selections. • Introduce graphing (self-monitoring) using prior compositions (this assists with goal setting). • Poor stories or essays can be presented and collaboratively improved. • Emphasize effort to improve. Establish a commitment to learn the strategy and act as a collaborative partner.

27. Step 3: Model It • Model strategy steps and self‑regulation procedures across varied tasks. • Discuss ways that strategy steps may need to be modified for varied tasks, settings, or goals. • Collaboratively develop self‑talk, self-monitoring, and self‑reinforcement procedures. • Develop personalized self-instructions that will be used throughout the writing process. • Begin exploring application across tasks and settings (generalization).

28. Step 4: Memorize It • Have students memorize strategy steps, mnemonics, and self‑talk.

29. Step 5: Support It • Collaboratively practice using the strategy steps and self‑regulation procedures. • Collaboratively establish challenging but attainable writing goals. • Gradually fade support as students gain competence. • Discuss generalization and maintenance; assign homework for generalization.

30. Step 6: Independent Practice • Students use the writing strategies and self-regulation procedures independently. • Monitor use. Support as necessary. • Fading of overt self-regulation may begin. • Plans for maintenance and generalization continue to be discussed and implemented.

31. Some Tips on Promoting Strategy Maintenance and Generalization • Strategy instruction must be prolonged, covering implementation across tasks, settings, and people • Make the expectation for continued use in many contexts explicit • Solicit students’ ideas about the conditions under which a strategy might be deployed and what modifications might be necessary • Use other school personnel as confederates (i.e., have them prompt and reinforce strategy use and report on students’ efforts; have students report back as well)

32. Some Tips on Promoting Strategy Maintenance and Generalization • Always relate task performance to strategy use (e.g., discuss performance before versus after strategy instruction; have students evaluate pretest/posttest writing samples written by others who learned the strategy) • Plan instructional booster sessions • Have students teach the strategy to others • Have students create a transportable binder in which cue sheets or procedural facilitators are inserted and indexed • Encourage students to personalize the strategy after they have mastered the original steps • Authorize students who excel at particular strategies (or knowledge or skills) to be experts and serve as a resource for fellow students

33. Types of Strategies

34. Two Major Text Structures Informational Story (Expository) (Narrative) Opinion Story Informative Personal Narrative Explanatory Research

35. Writing Strategies Planning Strategies Revising Strategies • POW+TREE (persuasive) • STOP and DARE (persuasive) • TREE BRANCH (expository) • PLANS (expository) • POW + WWW WHAT-2, HOW=2 (narrative) • CDO • SEARCH • COLA • PQP (Peer-Revising)

36. P-O-W! • Pick my idea • Organize my notes (T-R-E-E) • Write and say more

37. When you introduce a strategy...remember the SRSD Model • Build background • Discuss • Model • Memorize • Support • Independent Practice

38. Strategies for Informational Writing POW + TREE STOP and DARE TREE BRANCH

39. T-R-E-E: Paragraph Version Topic Reasons End it Examine

40. T-R-E-E: Essay Version Topic Reasons Explain your reasons End it

41. SHOULD CHILDREN HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE FOR RECESS? Everyone should have to go outside for recess. One reason why everyone should go outside is because children need to move their bodies. When kids are outside for recess, they are doing a lot of running, jumping, and climbing. Another reason for going outside is to get out of the classroom. It is hard to sit in one place all day. Kids need to get up and go outside. Another good reason for going outside is that you get to meet kids from different grades. They can teach you games that you don’t know. A final reason for going outside is to play sports. The teacher won’t let you play soccer or dodge ball inside. These are some of the reasons why I believe kids should go outside for recess.

43. TREE BRANCH The parts of a good report include: TTell what your topic is and why it’s important with a good lead RRelate important and interesting facts about your topic EElaborate on the facts with supporting data EEnd with a summary that makes the reader want to find out more The steps to write a good report are: BBrainstorm idea words for my plan RRecite my self-talk to keep me going strong AAsk myself if my ideas will meet my writing goals NNow write a report with good organization, powerful words, and accurate information CChallenge myself to come up with more good ideas HHave a close look at my paper for mistakes

44. PLANS • Do PPick Goals L List Ways to Meet Goals A And N Make Notes S Sequence Notes • Write and Say More • Test Goals

45. Strategies for Narrative Text Narrative Text

46. Strategies for Narrative • W-W-W, What= 2, How=2 • Who, When, Where • What do the characters want? • What happens? • How does it end? • How does the main character feel? • Story Maps

48. Supporting Self-Regulation Goal Setting Self-Instructions (Talk) Self-Monitoring Self-Reinforcement

49. Components of Self‑Regulation • Goal Setting • enhances attention, motivation, and effort • facilitates strategic behavior • prompts self‑evaluation • goals should be challenging, specific, proximal, and, if possible, self‑selected • goals can focus on a process or an aspect of the product (for product goals, quality and quantity goals can be established)

50. Sample Goals • complete a planning sheet/organizer using words or phrases • revise at least twice, once with a checklist, once with a peer • use the spell checker plus backward read aloud to correct spelling mistakes • include an initiating event, then two actions, and finally a consequence  increase organization score by one point • include 5 main ideas in a report  increase content score by two points • include 15 action helpers, descriptive words, or transition words  increase word choice score by two points • have no more than 5 errors per page  increase conventions score by one point