Professional Reading: Accelerating Writing Achievement: Rebecca Jensen

 This article didn't really say a lot but here are some notes form it

• start by finding out what the students already know and can do.
• This has two benefits. First, it allows you to start at the most appropriate place. Secondly, it allows you to maximise the pace,
• knowing the learner” as a writer goes much deeper than knowing their test scores. And teaching at the edge of what students know and can do requires considerable expertise on behalf of the teacher.
• modelling is most powerfully employed to let students into the secret of what expert writers think about and ask themselves when they write. Thus, as a teaching strategy, modelling is well suited to the teaching of mental strategies.