Expository & Informational Writing Intervention Toolkit: 80 small group lessons

This toolkit is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need in expository or informational writing and know exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! 80 strategy lesson cards help you intervene meaningfully at every step of the writing process.

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The Teacher’s Guide to Writing Intervention:

A 36 page guide to show you how to…

• Differentiate expository writing from narrative
• Structure your writing block
• Make the most of whole-group instruction (12 detailed tips)
• Guide students through the writing process
• Review student writing with a rubric
• Group students for intervention
• Plan future instruction based on student needs
• Conduct writing conferences
• Grow students’ writing independence

The Writing Intervention Strategy Ring:

A collection of 80 strategy lessons on cards to help you intervene with…

• Prewriting
• Generating ideas
• Narrowing a topic
• Writing central idea statements
• Planning and organizing student writing
• Drafting
• Revising for coherence, focus, organization, sentence structure, word choice, and more
• Editing for capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling

The teacher’s guide to the Intervention Strategy Ring:

A 140 page guide that includes…

• Directions on how to build and use the strategy ring
• Writing samples for each of the 80 strategies
• Printable tools for planning, organizing, editing and more

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Here's the complete table of contents for each component of the kit!

The Intervention Strategy Ring

80 strategy lessons with the printables you need to teach them!

Prewriting Intervention Lessons

Generating Ideas & Brainstorming

• Interesting Photographs
• Shared Learning
• Steal an Idea
• Cube It
• Hands-on Experience
• Quick List
• Special Places
• Envision an Audience
• Guided Quick Write
• Teacher for a Day
• Brainstorming Stickies
• Tell Me About It

Central Ideas:

• Flip the Prompt
• Reverse Web
• Make a Statement

Planning

• Scaffolded Map
• Diagram Details
• Say Something
• Sticky Note Categorizing
• Scaffolded Graphic Organizer

Drafting

• Using the Plan
• Talk it Out
• Adding by Connecting Ideas
• Adding on with Sentence Starters
• Consider Your Audience
• Zooming in on the Audience
• Just Jump In
• The Basic Introduction
• Steal an Introduction
• The Basic Conclusion
• Steal a Conclusion

Revising Intervention Lessons

Goal Setting:

• Using the Rubric to Set a Goal

Focus

• What's the Big Idea?
• The Cheetah and the Sloth
• Find It

Coherence

• Imagine the Audience
• Just the Facts
• Pronoun Referents
• Who & Where
• Sort It
• Act it Out

Organization

• Cut It Up
• Move It
• Mark it Up

Adding Development

• Topic Words
• Language Graffiti
• Sensory Language
• The 2-Sentence Anecdote
• Find a Place
• Zoom it In
• The 4 Details

Sentence Fluency

• Combine it
• Notice the Start
• Stolen Lines

Word Choice

• Figurative Language Mapping
• Parts of Speech
• Ask & Answer
• Paint a Picture
• Vocabulary Word Mapping
• Repeated Words

Editing Intervention Lessons:

Grammar

• Run On Sentences: Run Ons: And Then!
• Run On Sentences: New Subject, New Sentence
• Fragments: Who Did What?
• Subject/Verb Agreement: Match it!
• Verb Tense: Highlight it!

Punctuation

• Comma Search
• End Marks: Mark it!

Paragraphs

• Changing Ideas

Spelling

• Personal Word List
• The Word Wall
• Find it Somewhere
• Stretch it Out
• Sound Options
• Contractions: Squished Words

Other Skills

• Apostrophes: Plural or Possessive?
• Apostrophes: Whose is it?
• Homophones: Which One is it?
• Capitalization: Prove It
• Building Editing Habits: The Personalized Checklist
• Building Editing Independence: Scavenger Hunt

The Teacher's Guide to Writing Intervention:

• Binder cover
• Components of writing instruction
• 12 Tips to help you make the most of whole-group instruction
• Guiding students through the writing process
• A teacher’s guide to reviewing student writing
• Narrative writing rubric
• Individual writing review
• Writing roster
• Narrative writing analysis spreadsheet
• Intervention grouping mat
• Conventions grouping mat
• Writing process grouping mat
• Next steps for instruction planner
• How to use the writing intervention strategy ring
• Tips for successful small group intervention
• Different approaches to growing student writers
• How to conduct a writing conference
• Conference log
• Writing conference questions
• How to grow students' writing independence

The Guide to the Writing Intervention Strategy Ring

• Writing sample for each intervention strategy with a of how to use the strategy
• Directions on how to assemble and use the strategy ring
• 53 printable tools for the strategies that require them, including...
  • Cube It - four brainstorming cube options
  • Teacher for a day brainstorming handout
  • Brainstorming stickies (2 sheets of printable sticky notes)
  • Reverse web for central ideas
  • Make a statement web for central ideas
  • Scaffolded map for planning (5 options)
  • Diagram details for planning
  • 5 expository graphic organizers
  • Sentence starter add-ons (a mini card guide)
  • Pronouns list (a mini card guide)
  • Transitional phrases list (half sheet card guide)
  • Language graffiti
  • Find a place (a mini card revision guide)
  • Combining sentence options guide
  • Figurative language map & definitions guide
  • Vocabulary web
  • Synonyms to replace repeated words list
  • Guide to using commas
  • Guide to end marks (a mini card)
  • Personal Spelling list handout
  • Spelling tools: sound options
  • Consonant Blends
  • Consonant Digraphs
  • Word Families
  • Vowel Sounds
  • Vowel Digraphs
  • Endings
  • R-Controlled Sounds
  • Common contractions list
  • Guide to apostrophes
  • Common homophones visual list
  • Capitalization options board
  • Personal Editing checklists: 3 filled versions and 2 blank for printing and personalizing
  • Editing scavenger hunt (3 versions)

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