Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities

Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities is a hands-on guide for anyone who teaches writing to students with learning disabilities. This valuable resource aids teachers in honing their skills in analysing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities.

The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing—even those who have not been classified as learning disabled. The book provides a review of basic skills—spelling, punctuation, and capitalisation—and includes instructional strategies to assist children who struggle with these basics.

The authors offer numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and provide helpful suggestions for motivating them.

Features of the book include:

• A much-needed guide for teaching and assessing writing skills in children with learning disabilities.
• Strategies for working with all students who struggle with writing.
• Classroom-tested strategies, useful information, over 100 writing samples with guidelines for analysis, and handy progress-monitoring charts.
• Ideas for motivating reluctant writers.
• Authored by Nancy Mather, an expert in the field of learning disabilities and the best-selling author of Essentials of Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement Assessment.