C's Draft:Builder Review, June 8, 2011
By Reviewer from California
Product Setting: Inclusion classroom. Skill Development: Improve organization for students with executive skill difficulties
This program has been helpful to motivate and structure writing.
Tricia's Draft Builder Review, February 1, 2010
By Reviewer from California
Version: Draft:Builder SE. Product Setting: Self-contained classroom. Skill Development: Improve organization for students with a wide-variety of learning challenges.
Draft:Builder is a program that allows me to create the scafolded structure my students need to create coherent written products. Left to their own devises, my students' independent writing samples lack sequence and often fail to posses the basic components of paragraph structure. Draft Builder allows me to build a frame for them to follow and provide prompting every step of the way even when I can't be there standing over their shoulder watching them write.
K's Draft:Builder SE Review, June 8, 2009
By Reviewer from Virginia
Version: Draft:Builder SE. Product Setting: Inclusion and self-contained settings. Skill Development: To support the writing process for students with autism and learning disabilities.
The templates included in Draft:Builder are very helpful to teachers. They provide a fast and effective way to offer support for their students who have difficulty organizing and composing written work. Students benefit from the embedded written prompts as well as the auditory feedback and visual format.
Cheryl's Draft Builder Review, June 6, 2009
By Reviewer from Connecticut
Version: Draft:Builder SE. Product Setting: I am in the process of getting Draft:Builder installed on every computer in our building (High School) It is also used by a few students at home. Skill Development: Improve writing/organization with all students - regular ed and special ed.
I use it regularly. I gave two presentations to the staff on staff development days. I have one student who was a non-writer at the start of the year and now uses the program to write three to five paragraph essays.
WE WANT SOLO! (Draft:Builder), May 28, 2009
By Reviewer from Illinois
Version: Draft:Builder SE. Product Setting: We have tried this product in
several buildings and had presentations for principals and special
education program coordinators. Several of the secondary buildings have
written proposals for using the SOLO in their computer labs for ALL the
students, not only students with IEPs. Public school setting.
Skill
Development: Writing skills... organization and organizers for 3 and 5 paragraph themes.
This product has been used for training students for practice on the writing prompt for state assessments!
Susan's Draft Builder-SOLO Review, May 3, 2009
By Susan Kuchta, Maryland
Version: Draft:Builder SE. Product Setting: Home setting. Skill Development: improve writing organization and planning and assist in starting writing- for student with executive function challenges.
Hard to follow instructions for use, details of installation and usage were sketchy, seems a little outdated.
