Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Writing Instruction In Mrs. Brown's second grade class, there are a lot of students who do not understand the basic foundations of writing. Students struggle with complete sentences, and creating a story based on state standards. Mrs. Brown teaches a majority of reading and math small groups throughout the day, with content mini-lessons build in for whole group. How much time should Mrs. Brown devote to teaching the writing process, when reading and math are being taught during small groups? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Try adding writing into one of the reading centers. This allows for more practice outside of the writing block. Also, try writing sentences on sentence strips for students to read, copy, and illustrate. This will give them practice writing complete sentences with capitalization and punctuation.