Improving Student Writing

Empowering Writers methodology and resources are proven to be the most effective way to improve student writing.

“This training and methodology has allowed our district to break an 11 year run of stagnant scores!”

- Cathy White, Principal
Hyman Fine Elementary
Attleboro School District, MA

Over the past 15 years, 1,000′s of schools and districts have applied the three steps below to improve their students’ writing.  The three facets of Empowering Writers approach to instruction deliver the skills all authors need in a direct and practical way.

Regardless of the economic disadvantages of the students, the size of the school district, or the current writing instruction within a school, our approach to improving writing instruction is proven to deliver immediate results. Even reluctant teachers of writing embrace the approach and, in turn, dramatically improve their quality of instruction.

1. Methodology centered around literature, whole class instruction and modeled lessons.

2. Teacher friendly Comprehensive Teacher Resources

3. Professional Development

  • Opinion Writing

    Opinion Writing With the advent of the CCSS, everyone is concerned about teaching Opinion Writing in response to text, to issues, situations, likes and dislikes.   The underlying organizational structure of a well-crafted opinion piece has its foundation in expository/informative writing.  It shares other characteristics with expository/informative writing as well.  A strong opinion ...
    7th June 2013
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  • Empowering Writers Methodology

    Methodology Whether you are looking for a complete writing curriculum or a supplement to your existing writing program, Empowering Writers proven, research-based METHODOLOGY can be applied to your narrative, expository and persuasive writing instruction to improve student writing. The methodology uses WHOLE CLASS INSTRUCTION, minimally twice a week for the introduction, modeling, and ...
    18th February 2013
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  • Persuasive Writing

    Persuasive Writing Among the most difficult writing assignments a young author can face is the persuasive essay.  Think about it – have you ever been able to persuade someone who holds a view that is diametrically opposed to your own to come around to see things your way?  Were you ever involved ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Expository Writing

    Teaching Expository Writing What exactly is expository writing? What specific skills are involved in expository writing? What can we expect in expository writing from student authors? How can parents help in the process? (see Parents' Corner)   What exactly is expository writing? Expository writing comes in a variety of forms, but, in general it is factual writing for the ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Narrative Writing

    Teaching Narrative Writing What exactly is narrative writing? What specific skills are involved in teaching narrative writing? What can we expect in narrative writing from student authors? How can parents help in the process? (see Parents' Corner)   What exactly is narrative writing? Narrative writing…you’ve heard the term, you’re expected to teach your students how to write a narrative ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Kindergarten-1st Grade Writing

    Kindergarten Writing and First Grade Writing What can we expect from kindergarten writing and first grade writing? What are the developmental stages of writing? How can we encourage our youngest authors in developmentally appropriate ways? Student samples of the Empowered Kindergarten-1st Grade Writer How can we inform parents of our youngest authors? (see Parents' Corner) What writing resources ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Response to Intervention – RTI

    What do you do when your students are struggling in writing? How do you address the writing weaknesses of your Tier 2 & Tier 3 students? Empowering Writers now offers a comprehensive Response to Intervention (RTI)resource to enable teachers to help struggling writers.  The RTI resource pinpoints the deficient skills and provides specific intervention ...
    28th February 2012
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  • About Us

    About Us Empowering Writers is an educational publisher and professional development provider specializing in the instruction of writing. We offer comprehensive, teacher-friendly workshops that empower educators of children from grades Kindergarten-8 to teach narrative writing, expository (informative) writing, and persuasive (opinion) writing in new and creative ways. The Empowering Writers’ model is supported ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Student Writing Samples – Expository and Persuasive

    Expository and Persuasive Student Writing Samples Expository Student Writing Samples   #1.  Here is a 4th grade expository student writing sample.  Note the skills applied by the student. strong organization effective introduction with a lead, topic sentence, and powerful use of informative verbs broad yet distinct main ideas strong supporting details through the use of detail-generating questions powerful conclusion Click ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Student Writing Samples – Narrative

    Narrative Student Writing Samples The best way to see what Empowering Writers can do for your students is to look at what our students are able to produce. The following narrative student writing samples will highlight the ways in which our methodology and materials concretely improve student writing. In this video Dea Auray, ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Professional Development Services

    Customized Professional Development Services K-8   Download Customized Professional Development Services.PDF Over the past 15 years, Empowering Writers has developed coaching services to support the implementation of writing instruction. The coaching services will ensure fidelity of the writing instruction and ultimately empower the teachers and literacy team to achieve long-term success in writing. Empowering Writers will partner with ...
    28th February 2012
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  • Comprehensive Teacher Resources

    Empowering Writers methodology and resources are proven to be the most effective way to improve student writing. Empowering Writers' extensive line of Narrative writing, Expository writing, Persuasive writing materials for Kindergarten through Grade 8 have been proven to work in the real world of the classroom. Based on solid research with proven results ...
    17th February 2012
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