Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instruction: Effects of Lesson Structure on a Teacher’s Behaviors

Self-regulated strategy development instruction or SRSD is a method developed for teaching students how and what to think while writing. SRSD instruction for the persuasive writing strategy POW (Pick my idea, Organize notes, Write and Say more) + TREE (Topic sentence, Reasons, Explain reasons, Ending) helps students by teaching them to develop their thoughts into manageable components prior to and during the writing process. In this descriptive...