Here’s the student’s final draft. To make revision more intentional and effective, students were required to highlight where they made changes. Their revisions focused on adding appositives and expanding “kernel” sentences where needed. I’m fully sold on strategies from @TheWritingRevol and the Hochman Method. It’s clear as day now: when we write to learn, we also learn to write. I can and should teach students to write effectively while building their knowledge of the world. These aren’t competing goals—they’re complementary. Each strengthens the other. More to come.

🚨I built my explicit instruction model for next year with help from my “Three Amigos” — Sweller, Rosenshine, and Ausubel. I walk through a lesson using the model, connect every move to the “amigos”, and share a toolbox teachers can use to do the same. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/solint…