Perfect practice makes perfect. This truly is the case for writing, as the more students are modeled exceptional writing and the more they practice different writing styles, the more likely students are master the genre. For example, in seventh grade the Argumentative paper and the Informational paper are completely new genres to students in Holt, so they are in need of quite a bit of scaffolding in order to get them to this point.
Some of the papers that I am very proud to have scaffolded up to a very high quality paper level are shown below:
