Empowering Writers – Teacher's Corner

The best way to see what Empowering Writers can do for your students is to look at what our students are able to produce. The following samples will highlight the ways in which our methodology and materials concretely improve student writing. Click on the links below to view a PDF of the samples.

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Sample #1 and #2 were written by the same student, three months apart.

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This narrative piece was written by a second grade student prior to instruction. This was a required timed assessment, administered at the beginning of second grade.

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This narrative piece was written by the same student after three months of instruction in narrative writing. The teacher used the Empowering Writers lessons and materials for delivering the following skills:

• Writing an entertaining story beginning
• Creating vivid elaborative detail
• Building suspense
• Genterating extended story endings

You can see that the improvements are directly related to instruction, and are easily identifiable.

Sample #3 and #4 were written by another second grade student, five months apart. Sample #4 reflects five months of instruction and growth.


Click here to enlarge sample 3 Clearly, there are greater needs in this piece than in sample #1.
	Click here to enlarge sample 4 Here you can see evidence of the following skills which were taught: • Writing an entertaining story beginning • Creating vivid elaborative detail • Building suspense • Genterating extended story endings • Creating a fully elaborated main event

	Click here to enlarge sample 6 This example of expository writing (a process piece) was written by a fourth grade student. Look for evidence of the following skills taught: • Strong organization • Broad, yet, distinct main ideas • The use of a variety of detail generating questions that deliver solid ideas ratther than a list of facts • The use of anecdotes and amazing facts • The use of a variety of "informative verbs" and "definitive words or phrases"
Click here to enlarge sample 5 Here is an example of a narrative piece written by a second grader at the end of the school year. This timed assessment clearly shows evidence of all skills taught.

Click here to enlarge sample 7 and Click here to enlarge sample 8 These narrative timed assessments were written by a fourth grader – the first prior to instruction, and the second sample by the same student after six months of instruction. Click here to see Research Data

Wouldn't you love to regularly see this kind of growth in your students' writing? Teachers benefitting from Empowering Writers training gain the specific strategies and techniques which they skillfully and confidently pass along to their students. Our wide range of resources and support materials make implementation easy, creative, and fulfilling. Why not see what Empowering Writers can do to improve your students' writing?

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