Writing for Understanding: Using Backwards Design to Help All Students Write Effectively

Writing for Understanding is for teachers. The book lays out a manageable, effective approach to teacher planning so that students have access to all of those elements, especially the first three, before they sit down to write. Based on the principle of “backward design” (Wiggins and McTighe), it conceptualizes planning for writing instruction in terms of key elements. These are:

Central Ideas
What is it that I want students to understand about this content? What understandings about the c...