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Boost Reading Comprehension and Learning: How Explicit Writing Instruction Can Help

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

Boost Reading Comprehension and Learning: How Explicit Writing Instruction Can Help

Presented by Natalie Wexler, Education Writer and Author

Sponsored by Voyager Sopris Learning

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Only 27% of American students score proficient or above on national writing tests. One reason? Writing is hard. Another: Most teachers haven’t received good training in how to teach it. But when the writing process is broken down into manageable chunks that are explicitly taught in a logical sequence, all students can learn to write well. With the right instructional method—and intervention when needed—writing can also identify and compensate for gaps in background knowledge that interfere with comprehension, familiarize students with the complex syntax of written language, deepen and cement knowledge of content, and foster analytical thinking.

In this edWebinar, viewers learn:

  • Why writing is potentially the most powerful lever we have for building academic knowledge and vocabulary
  • Why standard instructional approaches to writing have failed to unlock its potential
  • Why any reading intervention should include a writing component
  • Why it’s important to modulate the heavy cognitive load that writing imposes on working memory
  • How sentence-level activities can modulate cognitive load, build writing skills, familiarize students with complex syntax, and deepen knowledge
  • How teaching students to create a linear outline can modulate the cognitive load imposed by writing at length while deepening their understanding of content

This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders.

Natalie WexlerAbout the Presenter

Natalie Wexler is an education writer and the author of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How to Fix It (Avery, 2019). She is also the co-author, with Judith C. Hochman, of The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades (Jossey-Bass, 2017), and a senior contributor to the education channel on Forbes.com. Her newsletter, Minding the Gap, on Substack, is available for free. Her articles and essays about education and other topics have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, the MIT Technology Review, The American Scholar, and other publications. She has spoken about education before a variety of groups and appeared on a number of TV and radio shows, including Morning Joe and NPR’s On Point and 1A.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University, a Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Sussex (UK), and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as a reporter, a Supreme Court law clerk, a lawyer, and a legal historian. The author of three novels, she lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and has two adult children.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
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