Select each strand of The Writing Rope to learn how the resources in our research-based writing solution, Writing A-Z, align and help teachers foster skilled writing for all K-5 students.
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Sedita, J. (2019). The Writing Rope. Rowley, MA, Keys to Literacy. Modified with permission from Joan Sedita. All rights reserved.
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Spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding skills are included in transcription skills. Mastery of these lower-order cognitive tasks with Writing A-Z allows students to focus on other strands of the rope.
Students gain syntactical awareness as they put together words and phrases to construct clear sentences in Writing A-Z. Instruction in grammar, sentence structure/elaboration, and punctuation are included in writing process lessons so students practice in the context of their writing. Extra practice is also provided in the Grammar Packs.
Grammar and Syntactic Awareness
Sentence Elaboration
Punctuation
An important part of Writing A-Z, students develop their critical thinking as they conceptualize and analyze information, tap into background knowledge, and generate ideas to plan, draft, and revise writing. Students go through the writing process four times in the opinion, informative, and narrative writing units.
Generating Ideas, Gathering Information
Writing Process: Planning, Drafting, Evaluating, Revising, Editing
In Writing A-Z, students learn about different genres and that each has its own structure, elements, and patterns of organization. The three genre units—opinion, informative, and narrative—each begin with a genre study followed by four opportunities for students to apply the elements during their writing process.
Narrative, Informational, and Opinion Text Structures & Genre-Specific, Customizable Graphic Organizers
Linking and Transition Words
Students learn that writing is a craft in Writing A-Z with techniques writers use to meet the needs of their audience through word choice, use of literary devices, figurative language, perspective, point of view, and writing voice or style. For grades 3-5, each module includes two revision lessons to provide extra instruction with strategies that strengthen students’ writing.
Word Choice
Awareness of Task, Audience, and Purpose
Literary Devices
Decoding is the ability to apply one’s knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words.
Phonological Awareness is the ability to recognize and work with sounds in spoken language.
Sight Recognition is knowing a word by sight without having to decode it. Sight recognition includes knowing a word’s meaning in context.
Working on Vocabulary includes learning the meanings of words, understanding the connection between words, and using words to express understanding.
Background Knowledge refers to facts, concepts, and experiences specific to situations and information presented in text or during a discussion.
Language Structures refers to syntax and semantics. Syntax speaks to a language system that has everything to do with how word order is used to convey meaning. Semantics is about the way words are used to convey meaning.
Literacy Knowledge refers to the understanding of how conventions, the patterns, and organization are all used to convey meaning in print, including the idea that different genres serve different purposes in terms of conveying ideas.
Verbal Reasoning involves students thinking deeply about texts while also thinking outside of the text to draw inferences and integrate information. It also requires background knowledge and understanding of language structures.
Generating Ideas, Gathering Information
Writing Process: Planning, Drafting, Evaluating, Revising, Editing
Syntax is the knowledge of how words and phrases are put together to construct clear sentences. Syntactical awareness includes grammar, sentence elaboration, and punctuation.
Writing A–Z Grammar Packs include instructional grammar videos (parts of speech, sentences, and punctuation) and practice activities that students complete independently.
Grammar and Syntactic Awareness
Sentence Elaboration
Punctuation
Text structure refers to the ways authors organize information in the text. Each genre has a different structure, elements, and patterns of organization.
Narrative, Informational, and Opinion Text Structures
Genre-specific, Customizable Graphic Organizers
Linking and Transition Words
Writing craft defines the techniques writers use to meet the needs of their audience through the decisions they make regarding word choice, use of literary devices, figurative language, perspective, point of view, and writing voice or style.
Within Writing A-Z for grades 3-5, each module includes two revision lessons to provide extra instruction with strategies that strengthen students’ writing.
Word Choice
Awareness of Task, Audience, and Purpose
Literary Devices
Transcription includes spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding skills. Mastery of these lower-order cognitive tasks allows students to focus on other strands of the rope.
An important part of Writing A-Z, students develop their critical thinking as they conceptualize and analyze information, tap into background knowledge, and generate ideas to plan, draft, and revise writing. Students go through the writing process four times in the opinion, informative, and narrative writing units.
Generating Ideas, Gathering Information
Writing Process: Planning, Drafting, Evaluating, Revising, Editing
Students gain syntactical awareness as they put together words and phrases to construct clear sentences in Writing A-Z. Instruction in grammar, sentence structure/elaboration, and punctuation are included in writing process lessons so students practice in the context of their writing. Extra practice is also provided in the Grammar Packs.
Grammar and Syntactic Awareness
Sentence Elaboration
Punctuation
In Writing A-Z, students learn about different genres and that each has its own structure, elements, and patterns of organization. The three genre units—opinion, informative, and narrative—each begin with a genre study followed by four opportunities for students to apply the elements during their writing process.
Narrative, Informational, and Opinion Text Structures & Genre-Specific, Customizable Graphic Organizers
Linking and Transition Words
Students learn that writing is a craft in Writing A-Z with techniques writers use to meet the needs of their audience through word choice, use of literary devices, figurative language, perspective, point of view, and writing voice or style. For grades 3-5, each module includes two revision lessons to provide extra instruction with strategies that strengthen students’ writing.
Word Choice
Awareness of Task, Audience, and Purpose
Literary Devices
Spelling, handwriting, and keyboarding skills are included in transcription skills. Mastery of these lower-order cognitive tasks with Writing A-Z allows students to focus on other strands of the rope.