Writing Strategies

1. Highlighting Strategy by Karla D. Rogers: In this strategy you teach children to highlight the main idea of a story and the supporting information. This is a great strategy that parents can also use with their child when they are helping their child write at home. It is designed to help students organize their thoughts and edit their writing.
http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/writingstrategies/3-6highlighting.htm

2. The Q20 Strategy by Megan Bernardi: Q20 stands for Questions to Outline. This strategy is designed to assist students in developing an outline for a research project. Once they pick a topic they are able to have questions which will help with the research part of the paper. This is a simple way to help students who are beginning to learn how to write a research paper know where to begin. I would have loved this when I was beginning research papers. :)
http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/writingstrategies/6-12questionstooutline.htm

3. The CD Strategy by Tom Adams: This strategy is designed to help students self-correct their paragraphs. You would ask the students "Is it clear?" or "Is it detailed?" The students can then look through their paragraph and decide if they can answer yes to each question. This would be fantastic for students to learn that they need clarity and details for their ideas to be understood by others who are reading their writing. I just think this is fantastic!
http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/writingstrategies/6-12enhancingdetails.htm

4. Your Words, Their Words Strategy by Molly George: This strategy is a prewriting strategy that is designed to bridge the gap between reading and writing. The students are able to refer to the text they are reading and obtain information for their writing. This strategy can be used for all ages when they begin to start reading something and writing about the reading.
http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/writingstrategies/6-12yourwordstheirwords.htm

5. The IBC Strategy by Stephanie Vinch: This strategy is a prewriting strategy designed to teach students that not only does a writing piece have an introduction, body and conclusion but also that each paragraph within a writing piece also has an introduction, body and conclusion. This is a strategy that would be great for students who are beginning to write longer writing pieces.
http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/writingstrategies/6-12introbodyconcl.htm

I got all these strategies from the same website but they are each different individuals. If you go to the website you can also watch a video on how to introduce the strategy to students. I thought this was a very helpful website. All of these strategies could be used for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.