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What Is SOLO Writing Coach?

 

Writing Methodology

 

Common Core Alignment

SOLO Writing Coach is a scientifically-proven writing intervention kit used in conjunction with the SOLO Literacy Suite. Scripted lessons help teachers deliver high-quality writing strategy instruction when accompanied by SOLO technology. A detailed implementation guide assists administrators with site- and district-wide implementation and data collection. The proven methodology helps students achieve dramatic writing gains—even in short intervention periods.

SOLO Writing Coach paired with SOLO Literacy Suite is perfect for intervention, Response to Intervention (RtI), special education or summer school/extended day programs.

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SOLO Writing Coach leverages the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model created by Drs. Steve Graham and Karen Harris of Vanderbilt University. It is widely accepted as the most effective model of writing instruction for students with learning disabilities. According to the Writing Next report, explicitly teaching writing strategies has the largest effect on student writing outcomes. Through a meta-analysis of many studies, the SRSD writing strategy method had a much greater impact on students compared to other methods of teaching writing strategies. “The average weighted effect size for SRSD studies (1.14) was larger than for non-SRSD studies (0.62).” The SRSD method can be used in intensive intervention settings or to supplement with your core writing instruction.

Source: Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School, commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by the Alliance for Excellent Education

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The Common Core State Standards emphasize three typesand purposes for writing: arguments, informative/explanatory texts, and real or imagined narratives. Across these three, students must learn to write in a clear and coherent manner using development, organization, and style that are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience. The Common Core further calls for students to use a planning, revision, editing, and rewriting to develop and strengthen their writing while using technology and multiple forms and sources of information. 

SOLO Writing Coach addresses each of the skills with strategies that are built strategically through step-by-step lessons. These lessons help teachers strengthen student writing—and the integration of SOLO builds in the accommodations necessary for students to fully access the curriculum.

 

 

 

 

Professional Development

 
Hands-On Product Training

Let our trainers help you get up and running with SOLO Writing Coach.  They will help your staff get the most out of the program.

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SOLO Writing Coach Training Learning Objectives:
  • Understand the importance of strategy instruction
  • Identify struggling writers’ behaviors
  • Implement writing strategies using SRSD
  • Plan f