This Writing Strategy course is intended for secondary students grades 9-12 with an identified need to improve their writing skills across all academic courses. The Learning Strategies in this course focuses on both how to learn and how to effectively use what has been learned. The course is designed to enable students to cope effectively with curricular demands and to generalize their use of new skills to a variety of settings including all academic courses, home, and employment. The overarching goal is for students to learn the skills and content to perform academic tasks independently, and engage in domain specific conversation to improve their written expression.
Students will become proficient in writing four types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Once these sentence writing strategies are mastered, students are given the opportunity to move into paragraph writing strategies, error monitoring strategies, and eventually theme writing strategies. The goal of the course is to allow students to develop as proficient writers across all academic settings.