Program Description

"TWR provides teachers at all grade levels with the capacity to deliver comprehensive writing instruction in every subject: English, social studies, math and science, as well as foreign languages. TWR’s evidence-based strategies ensure that all students at all levels can produce clear, coherent, unified, and structured writing. Armed with those strategies, students become better readers, communicators and most importantly, critical thinkers."

Cost

The Writing Revolution book resources can be accessed for free. Educator training on the program starts at $1,000 per educator.

Intended Population

• Core

Grade

• Elementary School
• Middle School
• High School

Intended Group Size

• Any

ELL/DLL

• Partial

Multisensory Applications

• Unspecified

Computer-Based Delivery

• Partial

Scripted

• Instructor Scripted

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Comprehensive

Placement Tests

• No

Accelerated Learning

• No

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• No

Error Correction Built In

• Unspecified

Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher

• Unspecified

Research Summary

The publisher reported positive writing gains in partner schools across the country. The gains included improved standardized ELA scores and paragraph writing proficiency. No peer-reviewed research was found. Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to support the efficacy of this program at this time.

Study Citations

The Writing Revolution (n.d.) Impact. https://www.thewritingrevolution.org/impact/

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Insufficient evidence

Additional Reviews

• https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/q-a-the-writing-revolution-encourages-focus-on-crafting-good-sentences/2017/06