Read Washington is thrilled to present our next live webinar, The Science of Writing: The Writing Rope Framework for Writing Instruction, presented by Joan Sedita, on Saturday, May 20th at 10:00 AM PDT.

Reading and writing have reciprocal benefits. Early writing (encoding) is the other side of the coin in the alphabetic principle. Many teachers do not recognize that effective writing instruction must address multiple components, represented as strands in a rope in this model. This webinar includes an overview of The Writing Rope model for writing instruction (Sedita, 2019). An explanation with references to research findings will be provided for the five strands: 1) Critical Thinking (generating ideas and information, stages of the writing process), 2) Syntax (syntactic awareness, sentence elaboration, punctuation), 3) Text Structure (narrative, informational, opinion; paragraph structure; patterns of organization, 4) Writing Craft (awareness of task, audience, purpose; word choice; literary devices), 5) Transcription (spelling and handwriting fluency). Writing instruction across grades 3-12 will be addressed.