ABSTRACT
This chapter devotes to the general strategies that work. When we teach students how to embed evidence into a written paragraph, it begins with providing sentence stems to ease them into a more smooth, transitioning language. Color-coding is a way to visualize paragraph structure. It is not meant to be a scaffold that students use throughout their K12 education, but it is meant to get them on the road towards accomplishing a certain level of written expectation. When the author first began to write this chapter, he asked colleagues both online and off what was the most valuable tool in their toolbox that they used to teach writing. Give them ways to show understanding in different ways that count. He first started using writer's notebooks in 2004 after a training with America's Choice. Some districts have deals with programs like My Big Campus or Edmodo, both of which are very Facebook-esque in appearance and format.
