Middle Web 29 September 2026 by Nikita Munoz, Allison Rea and Sunday Cummins

How can we give our students the strategies and scaffolding they need to read high-interest but complex informational texts and then write purposefully about what they have read? This team of teachers shares their class-tested solutions.

...Asking students to write about what they have learned also requires some explicit instruction on our part. This second article details three approaches to writing we have found beneficial: creating a plan; orally rehearsing, and conferring with students at their points of need...

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