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Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) Strategy

CER gives students a clear structure for writing persuasive or argumentative explanations by guiding them to make a claim, back it up with evidence, and explain the reasoning that connects the two.
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Fact, Understanding, Evidence, Link (FUEL) Strategy

FUEL is a writing strategy that supports informational and argumentative writing by guiding students through four components to build clear, organized paragraphs, which include writing a topic sentence, explaining their thinking, supporting with evidence, and creating a logical conclusion.
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Hamburger Strategy

The Hamburger Paragraph strategy uses a familiar visual metaphor to help students in grades 2–6 plan and draft writing across genres. By organizing topic sentences, supporting details, and conclusions like layers of a hamburger, it simplifies paragraph structure and encourages deeper content develop...
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Pick, List, Evaluate, Activate, Supply, End (PLEASE) Strategy

PLEASE is a planning and drafting strategy designed for informative and expository writing to help students effectively plan and organize a paragraph through clear, step-by-step tasks, including incorporating self-regulation techniques like goal setting.
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Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, Revise (POWER) Strategy

POWER is a structured strategy that helps students in Grades 6-12 approach the writing process in a manageable way by breaking it into five steps that reinforce planning, organization, drafting, editing, and revising.
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Preview, List, Assign numbers, Note, Search (PLANS) Strategy

PLANS is a step-by-step strategy for informational and expository writing that helps students organize their thinking before drafting by previewing goals, listing main ideas with the FRAME organizer, assigning an order, noting ideas in full sentences, and searching for errors.
Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
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The SIM Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS, MARK)

Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing lessons teach students essential grammar concepts and terms and a strategy to write and check four types of simple sentences, serving as either a foundational curriculum or a quick refresher to strengthen understanding.
SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy SCRIBE PENS

The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)

With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
A proficiency in the sentence writing strategy (PENS)

The SIM Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS)

Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy is appropriate for students who already have a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms (such as "subject" and "verb"); students will learn advanced sentence writing skills, including writing compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences with th...
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Topic, Important, Detailed, Ending (TIDE) Strategy

TIDE is a practical strategy for planning and writing informative or expository paragraphs by giving students a clear, repeatable framework for organizing their ideas and making their writing structured and easy to follow.
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Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy

TIQA is a straightforward strategy for informational writing and literary analysis that guides students through four key components to build strong, focused, text-based paragraphs: Topic sentence, Introduction of evidence, Quotation, and Analysis.
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Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) Strategy

CER gives students a clear structure for writing persuasive or argumentative explanations by guiding them to make a claim, back it up with evidence, and explain the reasoning that connects the two.
Focus, Understand, Evidence, and Link (FUEL) strategy man putting gas in car

Fact, Understanding, Evidence, Link (FUEL) Strategy

FUEL is a writing strategy that supports informational and argumentative writing by guiding students through four components to build clear, organized paragraphs, which include writing a topic sentence, explaining their thinking, supporting with evidence, and creating a logical conclusion.
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Hamburger Strategy

The Hamburger Paragraph strategy uses a familiar visual metaphor to help students in grades 2–6 plan and draft writing across genres. By organizing topic sentences, supporting details, and conclusions like layers of a hamburger, it simplifies paragraph structure and encourages deeper content develop...
Pick, List, Evaluate, Analyze, Supply, End (PLEASE) Strategy cherry on top

Pick, List, Evaluate, Activate, Supply, End (PLEASE) Strategy

PLEASE is a planning and drafting strategy designed for informative and expository writing to help students effectively plan and organize a paragraph through clear, step-by-step tasks, including incorporating self-regulation techniques like goal setting.
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Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, Revise (POWER) Strategy

POWER is a structured strategy that helps students in Grades 6-12 approach the writing process in a manageable way by breaking it into five steps that reinforce planning, organization, drafting, editing, and revising.
Preview, List, Assign, Note, Search (PLANS) Strategy Eyes, clipboard, person moving post its, post it, magnifying glass

Preview, List, Assign numbers, Note, Search (PLANS) Strategy

PLANS is a step-by-step strategy for informational and expository writing that helps students organize their thinking before drafting by previewing goals, listing main ideas with the FRAME organizer, assigning an order, noting ideas in full sentences, and searching for errors.
Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
SIM Fundamentals in the sentence writing strategy pens mark

The SIM Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS, MARK)

Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing lessons teach students essential grammar concepts and terms and a strategy to write and check four types of simple sentences, serving as either a foundational curriculum or a quick refresher to strengthen understanding.
SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy SCRIBE PENS

The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)

With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
A proficiency in the sentence writing strategy (PENS)

The SIM Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS)

Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy is appropriate for students who already have a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms (such as "subject" and "verb"); students will learn advanced sentence writing skills, including writing compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences with th...
Topic Sentence, Important Evidence, Detailed Explanation, Ending Sentence (TIDE) Strategy wave

Topic, Important, Detailed, Ending (TIDE) Strategy

TIDE is a practical strategy for planning and writing informative or expository paragraphs by giving students a clear, repeatable framework for organizing their ideas and making their writing structured and easy to follow.
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Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy

TIQA is a straightforward strategy for informational writing and literary analysis that guides students through four key components to build strong, focused, text-based paragraphs: Topic sentence, Introduction of evidence, Quotation, and Analysis.

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Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) Strategy

CER gives students a clear structure for writing persuasive or argumentative explanations by guiding them to make a claim, back it up with evidence, and explain the reasoning that connects the two.
Focus, Understand, Evidence, and Link (FUEL) strategy man putting gas in car

Fact, Understanding, Evidence, Link (FUEL) Strategy

FUEL is a writing strategy that supports informational and argumentative writing by guiding students through four components to build clear, organized paragraphs, which include writing a topic sentence, explaining their thinking, supporting with evidence, and creating a logical conclusion.
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Hamburger

This strategy offers a concrete, visual metaphor for students in Grades 2-6 to plan and evaluate their paragraph structure by mapping the main idea (top bun), supporting details (fillings), and conclusion (bottom bun).
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Pick Ideas, Organize, Write and Say More (POW) Strategy

POW is a foundational SRSD planning strategy that helps students brainstorm and organize their ideas before drafting and serves as a simple, versatile starting point for more complex strategies.
Cherry on top, pick, list, evaluate, analyze, supply, end (PLEASE) strategy

Pick, List, Evaluate, Activate, Supply, End (PLEASE) Strategy

PLEASE is a planning and drafting strategy designed for informative and expository writing to help students effectively plan and organize a paragraph through clear, step-by-step tasks, including incorporating self-regulation techniques like goal setting.
Plan, organize, write, edit, revise (POWER) strategy person pluggin in cord

Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, Revise (POWER) Strategy

POWER is a structured strategy that helps students in Grades 6-12 approach the writing process in a manageable way by breaking it into five steps that reinforce planning, organization, drafting, editing, and revising.
Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
SIM Fundamentals in the sentence writing strategy pens mark

The SIM Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS, MARK)

Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing lessons teach students essential grammar concepts and terms and a strategy to write and check four types of simple sentences, serving as either a foundational curriculum or a quick refresher to strengthen understanding.
SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy SCRIBE PENS

The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)

With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
A proficiency in the sentence writing strategy (PENS)

The SIM Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS)

Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy is appropriate for students who already have a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms (such as "subject" and "verb"); students will learn advanced sentence writing skills, including writing compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences with th...
Topic Sentence, Important Evidence, Detailed Explanation, Ending Sentence (TIDE) Strategy wave

Topic, Important, Detailed, Ending (TIDE) Strategy

TIDE is a practical strategy for planning and writing informative or expository paragraphs by giving students a clear, repeatable framework for organizing their ideas and making their writing structured and easy to follow.
Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy lightbulb open door speech bubble doctor looking at report

Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy

TIQA is a straightforward strategy for informational writing and literary analysis that guides students through four key components to build strong, focused, text-based paragraphs: Topic sentence, Introduction of evidence, Quotation, and Analysis.
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Woman with megaphone, detective, woman with book

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) Strategy

CER gives students a clear structure for writing persuasive or argumentative explanations by guiding them to make a claim, back it up with evidence, and explain the reasoning that connects the two.
Focus, Understand, Evidence, and Link (FUEL) strategy man putting gas in car

Fact, Understanding, Evidence, Link (FUEL) Strategy

FUEL is a writing strategy that supports informational and argumentative writing by guiding students through four components to build clear, organized paragraphs, which include writing a topic sentence, explaining their thinking, supporting with evidence, and creating a logical conclusion.
Hamburger strategy bun tomato lettuce burger bun

Hamburger

This strategy offers a concrete, visual metaphor for students in Grades 2-6 to plan and evaluate their paragraph structure by mapping the main idea (top bun), supporting details (fillings), and conclusion (bottom bun).
Pick My Ideas, Organize My Notes, Write and Say More (POW) Strategy Boxing glove

Pick Ideas, Organize, Write and Say More (POW) Strategy

POW is a foundational SRSD planning strategy that helps students brainstorm and organize their ideas before drafting and serves as a simple, versatile starting point for more complex strategies.
Cherry on top, pick, list, evaluate, analyze, supply, end (PLEASE) strategy

Pick, List, Evaluate, Activate, Supply, End (PLEASE) Strategy

PLEASE is a planning and drafting strategy designed for informative and expository writing to help students effectively plan and organize a paragraph through clear, step-by-step tasks, including incorporating self-regulation techniques like goal setting.
Plan, organize, write, edit, revise (POWER) strategy person pluggin in cord

Plan, Organize, Write, Edit, Revise (POWER) Strategy

POWER is a structured strategy that helps students in Grades 6-12 approach the writing process in a manageable way by breaking it into five steps that reinforce planning, organization, drafting, editing, and revising.
Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

Set up, Text Evidence, Analyze, Restate (STAR) Strategy

This strategy helps students in upper elementary and middle school craft focused, evidence-based responses by providing a clear structure to organize their thinking, incorporate relevant text evidence, and analyze how that evidence supports their answer.
SIM Fundamentals in the sentence writing strategy pens mark

The SIM Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS, MARK)

Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing lessons teach students essential grammar concepts and terms and a strategy to write and check four types of simple sentences, serving as either a foundational curriculum or a quick refresher to strengthen understanding.
SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy SCRIBE PENS

The SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy (SCRIBE, PENS)

With the Paragraph Writing Strategy, students learn to list ideas related to a topic; plan the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph; plan the sequence in which ideas will be expressed; and write a variety of topic, detail, and clincher sentences.
A proficiency in the sentence writing strategy (PENS)

The SIM Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy (PENS)

Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy is appropriate for students who already have a thorough grounding in basic concepts and terms (such as "subject" and "verb"); students will learn advanced sentence writing skills, including writing compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences with th...
Topic Sentence, Important Evidence, Detailed Explanation, Ending Sentence (TIDE) Strategy wave

Topic, Important, Detailed, Ending (TIDE) Strategy

TIDE is a practical strategy for planning and writing informative or expository paragraphs by giving students a clear, repeatable framework for organizing their ideas and making their writing structured and easy to follow.
Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy lightbulb open door speech bubble doctor looking at report

Topic, Introduce, Quote, Analyze (TIQA) Strategy

TIQA is a straightforward strategy for informational writing and literary analysis that guides students through four key components to build strong, focused, text-based paragraphs: Topic sentence, Introduction of evidence, Quotation, and Analysis.

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