Write It Advanced Workshop

Write It builds on the foundations we’ve already established through letter-sounds, phonemic segmentation and manipulation, and sound-symbol processing. But here’s what makes Write It different from all the other Word Work activities: it doesn’t show the word to the student. Rather, the student must create its representation from her own mind—a demanding retrieval task that accelerates learning and permanently wires spelling patterns into memory. On the surface, Write It is just a simple dictation activity, yet the challenging task is a great teaching and assessment tool.

• • Download general Write It Overview and Guide
  • Watch Write It overview youtube video
  • Read and watch more about Write It on our public website here. 
  • Download Write It Advanced Workshop presentation slides
  • Download Write It Advanced Workshop text chat
  • See AI summary, video, and time-stamped questions from workshop here
  • Download article by Young-Suk Grace Kim and Elizabeth Zagata: “Enhancing Reading and Writing Skills Through Systematically Integrated Instruction“
  • Download article by Ahmed et al: “The Not-So-Simple View of Writing in Struggling Readers/Writers”
  • Read what Dr. Timothy Shanahan writes about the writing and reading connection here.