Are you looking for strategies that you can teach your students that will help them become more effective and independent writers?  As you learned in the lead article, Self-Regulated Strategy Development, or SRSD, is a highly effective strategy that you can explicitly teach students that has been proven to improve student writing as well as on-task behavior.

Click here to see what the What Works Clearinghouse has to say about the effectiveness of the strategy: What Works Clearinghouse: Self-Regulated Strategy Development

Visit this website to read more about SRSD and find free resources: Think SRSD.  Think SRSD is maintained by a team headed by Steve Graham and Karen Harris who first developed and systematized the strategy.