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The High Achievement Easy Writing Program has been extremely effective with all groups of students, including ELL's. Teachers and parents are amazed at the progress. The most common feedback we receive indicates that the children using this program are writing better than their siblings that are one or two years older.
Here are some typical writing samples:
Most students will progress from scribbles to
independently writing paragraphs after about 100 school days. At about
day 60, most of the students have learned the basic high frequency
words, sentence structure, capitalization rules, spacing, and simple
punctuation. Around day 75, most students have transitioned from
guided writing to independently writing paragraphs.
Several High Achievement Educational Tools help accelerate the process.
- Automated "Letter Bingo" games help students learn the shapes and sounds of the letters. Children love playing the game. The content is available both on CD's for the classroom, and by telephone for use at home.
- Even before beginning the writing process, several instructional scaffolding techniques are necessary. The students must understand several basic concepts, such as top, middle, and bottom. A simple song about positions is highly effective. The educational phone system has several fun games emphasizing this concept and has been very effective at helping the students practice this skill.
- After the students understand positions and the other preliminary concepts, the next phase is writing the letters using the tracer letters. The automated audio systems and the educational phone system help the students practice this skill. The system provides step by step instructions on making the letters.
- After completing the module on letters, the students then progress to learning the high frequency words. The audio system pronounces each word and helps the student spell and write each word.
- Once the student has mastered the basic high frequency words, the automated system helps them learn and practice the rules for sentences. The students are guided and reminded about beginning a sentence with an uppercase letter, leaving a finger space between words, and ending a sentence with a period, question mark or exclamation mark.
- At the guided writing phase, students start using special beginning writing paper. The paper has extra wide lines, student information areas for automated indexing, and a over-sized area for a picture to support the writing process. As students transition to independent writing, the picture helps the student focus on the topic and helps associate the words to their meanings.
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