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= = Welcome! My name is Susan Chambre and welcome to my wiki for teachers of struggling writers. For the past 11 years I have been teaching in elementary public schools in New York City and Bergen County, New Jersey. While working in NYC schools, I was an inclusion classroom teacher, AIS provider, and teacher-trainer. For the past six years I have been working in Ridgewood, NJ as a resource center teacher. Currently I am enrolled in the CLAIR doctoral program at Fordham University for a PhD in contemporary literacies. = = = =This wiki is a resource for teachers who work with learning disabled (LD) students who struggle with the writing process. Over the past 11 years I have taught students who have had difficulty with getting their ideas onto paper. Issues that I have encountered have been: =
 * Difficulty generating ideas.
 * Expressive language delays that impact student's orally expressing their ideas before writing them.
 * Lack of detailed writing.
 * Students who lack stamina when writing.

==How can this wiki aid me in teaching these struggling students? This wiki will look at two research validated stratagies that have promising results for students who struggle. ==
 * The first strategy is SRSD developed by Steve Graham and Karen Harris from the Vanderbuilt University.
 * The second education approach will review the work of sentence combining popularized by Frank O'Hara and subsequently studied by numerous modern scholars.

=While there are many strategies available to teachers working with LD students, I have focused this wiki on two different tools. Since writing is a dynamic process and each student is an individual, I hope you will take away stratagies that can be integrated into your own classroom instruction. = include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" homeAtTop="on" limit="10"

Finally on the lighter side:
Do your writing workshop conferences ever feel like this:

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Happy Writing!