DGP Plus: Building Stronger Writers

This book contains innovative writing activities and strategies for applying grammar concepts to writing. DGP Plus is appropriate for all grade levels and ability levels.

Burnette Writing Process - Grades 6-12

Focusing on Success for Every Student

Basic Principles of the Burnette Writing Process

- For each writing assignment, students work on a few specific focus skills in the following categories: content, organization, style, conventions, format, and challenge.

- Focus skills can be individualized to meet the needs of each and every student.

- Innovative and interactive writing lessons help students to hone their focus skills and understand the complexities of writing.

- For each final draft, students self-assess, reflect, and annotate to demonstrate their understanding of each focus skill.

- Because students truly understand the skills, they continue to use them automatically even after moving on to new skills.

- The use of focus skills and annotation almost completely eliminates plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty.

- Students and teachers use an interactive, web-based program to create assignments and rubrics, chart progress, and get help with focus skills.

- Grading takes less time--while feedback is more meaningful--because teachers respond to and assess only the focus skills.

Features of the Burnette Writing Process Web Application

- Teachers can create meaningful writing assignments for students to print or view online.

Once a teacher creates an assignment, the program automatically generates an appropriate rubric.

Students can click on almost 100 different focus skills to see skill descriptors and examples of outstanding student work.

Teachers can add and modify skills as needed.

Students can chart their progress as they work toward mastering all of the focus skills.

Parents can view student progress charts online.

Teachers can view and print class progress reports.

Students (and teachers) can post questions and answers on a class-wide message board.

Teachers can share assignments with other subscribers.

Focused Writing: An Elementary Writing Process - Grades K-5

Basic Principles for Focused Writing: An Elementary Writing Process

• Researched-based writing process

• Teacher guide contains 36 writing assignments for grades K-5

• Assignments are divided into three skills levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced (Total of 108 different assignments)

• Assignments cover a wide range of writing genres

• Each assignment consists of five parts: assignment overview, author and audience, form, procedure, and suggested focus skills

• Each writing assignment takes the students through six steps of the writing process: prewriting, writing the first draft, revising, editing/proofreading, assessing, and publishing

• For each writing assignment, students work on a few specific skills, called focus skills, in the following categories: content, organization, style, conventions, format, and challenge

• The use of focus skills help students improve their writing one skills at a time and they are not overwhelmed by the writing process

• Writing assignments can be as individualized as needed

• The self-assessment rubric allows students to look at their own writing, evaluate it, comment on it, and learn from it

• Teacher guide contains over sixty mini-lessons to help build the skills necessary to become a proficient writer

• Teacher guide contains samples and reproducibles that are needed to implement the program

• Teacher guide contains descriptors of 45 focus skills used in the process