Developing writing skills can have a profound impact on academic success, professional growth, communication effectiveness, critical thinking, creativity, and personal expression. Being able to write is key to future success.
only %
of students are Proficient at writing in 3rd and 8th grades
over %
of workers must write while working
only %
of multilingual learners write at a Proficient level
“Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives.”
Vacca et al
Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum, 2020
“Writing enables students to generate their best thinking in its most effective form”
National Commission on Writing
2003
“writing and speaking constitute the most sought-after skill set in business and industry and why many corporate recruiters rank these abilities twice as high as managerial skills”
Hurley
The Hurley Blog, 2015
A research-backed approach to driving writing growth
With a design derived from numerous research reports, academic articles, expert advisors, and professional books – as well as empirical evidence based on pilot studies, Writable is built on three interwoven principles:
Writable empowers teachers with scaffolding tools that break down the writing process into manageable steps. By providing targeted guidance along the way, our tools help students build confidence, improve their writing, and achieve greater success.
Writable scaffolds instruction
Assignments include graphic organizers, prompts, and sentence starters that guide students through the writing process.
Writable scaffolds instruction
Assignments include graphic organizers, prompts, and sentence starters that guide students through the writing process.
Writable makes it easy to differentiate
Access pre-leveled assignments or create your own custom levels.
Practice Recommendations help you to reteach by assigning suggested assignments to differentiated groups based on skill.
“We don’t learn something complex like writing a good story all at once; we learn incrementally. We learn when we scaffold new learning upon old learning.”
Gallagher & Kittle
180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents, 2018
“Improving how writing is taught in schools requires that instruction is differentiated to meet students’ needs.”
Graham, S.
Changing How Writing Is Taught, 2019
“Writing affords students extended opportunities to think about, manipulate, and transform ideas and reflect on their existing knowledge, beliefs, and confusions.”
Research shows that receiving timely feedback is a crucial factor to improving writing skills. With Writable, educators have the flexibility to determine how and when they provide that impactful feedback which moves students forward in the writing process.
Targeted, in the moment feedback is easy to achieve with Writable
We let you know who is “on watch” and why. Your impact can be as simple as sending a text or voice message.
Writable’s tools make providing timely feedback simple
Spend less time grading and more time guiding students. Students can also generate effective feedback on-demand.
Writable’s tools make providing timely feedback simple
Spend less time grading and more time guiding students. Students can also generate effective feedback on-demand.
“Writing improves when teachers and peers provide students with feedback about the effectiveness of their writing.”
Graham et al
Informing writing: The benefits of formative assessment, 2011
“Feedback should not be limited to written comments on a submitted paper but should entail frequent dialogue throughout the writing process about the student’s application of knowledge, skill, and will to yield a successful piece of writing”
Gary Troia
Evidence-based practices for writing instruction, 2014
“Formative writing assessments where students obtained feedback about their writing during the course of everyday classroom teaching and learning resulted in better student writing.”
Revision allows writers to improve their ideas, refine their language, and engage their audience with confidence and clarity. Writable enables feedback to be seamlessly received and applied during the revision process, which is key to driving writing growth.
Writable guides students along the way
As students transition from writing and reviewing to revising, Writable gives students agency and helps them feel proud of their progress.
Writable guides students along the way
As students transition from writing and reviewing to revising, Writable gives students agency and helps them feel proud of their progress.
Writable uniquely connects feedback to revision
Writable saves time and amplifies the impact of both processes. This ultimately leads to improvement in writing skills.
“When students receive feedback after an assignment is already completed, they have no opportunity to actually use the feedback to revise their work… revision allows individuals to close the feedback cycle.”
Dr. Royce Sadler
University of Queensland
“Both primary and elementary school students increased the amount of editing and revising of their work when they were writing in a web-based tool.”
Williams & Beam
Technology and writing: Review of research, 2018
“Peer reviewing not only helps students improve a draft but also enhances student learning, particularly, from the activities of providing comments and making revisions after receiving comments.”
Wu & Schunn
The Effects of Poviding and Receiving Peer Feedback on Writing Performance and Learning of Secondary School Students, 20202
Writable supports your unique classrooms and goals.
Conferencing is key
“Brief conferences with students about their writing can have a transformative effect on their development and learning… Combining written feedback with a conversation can provide optimal support at key junctures in an assignment.”
– University of Minnesota, 2021
The value of daily writing practice
“When teachers increased how frequently students wrote, there was a corresponding improvement in the quality of their writing.”
– Graham et al, 2015
Case Study: Scaffolding & Improving Feedback
Learn how Sacramento Academic & Vocational Academy improved feedback and Revision.
