› Why Choose Writers Advantage? › Instructional Design › What's Included Contact our nearest regional office to learn how your schools can become part of America's Choice.		Everything You Need to Succeed   When you select Writers Advantage, you gain access to the best professional development and the most well-designed educational materials you will ever find.   Helping students become effective, fluent, and confident writers requires intensive, multifaceted, extended effort. It calls for a blend of tools, training, and support that is easy for teach.   The Writers Advantage package includes:   High-quality, sustained professional development for districts or clusters of schools, tailored for elementary, middle, or high school: District packages include five days of training, usually in the summer, for the principal, literacy coach, and one teacher per grade level from each school, plus follow-up coaches’ networks for district staff and literacy coaches and for principals during the school year to strengthen implementation. The package also includes on-site technical assistance for each participating school. District packages require participation by at least five schools. School packages are available to individual schools or clusters of schools in neighboring jurisdictions. The professional development package includes training and technical assistance.   This two-year, professional development program provides teachers, literacy coaches, and principals with a solid grounding in the latest research on effective writing instruction. They study videotaped examples of Writers Advantage in action; they participate in full simulations of daily lessons; and they have many opportunities to discuss and reflect on their own classes and student progress. Trainers take special care to foster a learning community and provide follow-up technical assistance and coaching as needed.   An engaging curriculum with teacher materials and aligned assessments, including: Writing Monographs that define the writing process and explain the components of Writers Advantage Lessons to establish Writers Advantage structures and help teachers to focus writing instruction on key topics Genre Studies that provide rich content for teaching students how to write narratives, reports, essays, and responses to literature Author Studies that provide rich content for discussing good writing and analyzing selected writers’ craft A set of Rubric Books for grades K–5 that explains the characteristics of effective writing in specific genres and include sample rubrics for formative assessments.   Where appropriate, schools receive the monograph Bridging to English and other support materials for teaching English language learners.