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INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORTS TO IMPROVE WRITING To improve writing outcomes, students need both practice and feedback. This includes formal writing opportunities (e.g., sustained writing, reports, and essays) and informal free-writing tasks. Through frequent writing progress-monitoring activities, such as Project AI SCORE, teachers receive formative feedback they can analyze to identify clear patterns of strength and need. This analysis, in turn, informs targeted instructional decisions and the resulting interventions that guide students to become better writers. The Writing Classroom is a free, instructional website that provides middle- and high-school teachers with the tools to im- plement evidence- and research-based writing strategies. Rec-
ognizing that targeted intervention is key, the platform helps teachers quickly match specific student needs, whether it's de- veloping ideas, strengthening structure, or refining sentence fluency, with proven strategies. The site offers instructional vid- eos for both teachers and students, along with downloadable graphic organizers, organized intuitively by area of challenge, writing process stage, and rubric area. This organization allows teachers to use student writing data to drive precise interven- tion, focusing instruction exactly on what students need. To ensure interventions are effective and necessary, teachers must continuously monitor progress to determine whether the inter- vention is working, needs adjustment, or if the student is ready to move on. To ensure interventions remain effective and appro-
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