really successful strategies for
writing as well, and there's been some research looking at this.
The research in writing is still very much behind the research in reading.
Reading's rather taken the lime light
so far in educational research.
The writing's definitely kind of coming in there and
so the research in what's best practice is definitely growing.
So in terms of where writing research is, a couple of key names in this area,
Karen Harris and Steve Graham, in the US,
who have done a lot of research on self-regulated strategy approaches.
And so going back to our task here, so we’ve brainstormed,
we’re thinking about how we’re going to structure our writing piece, and
so it’s gonna be useful to have, first of all,
we actually want some frameworks or some scaffolding.
Within which the student can put their ideas or their sentences.
So first of all, so you'll want to have a framework
that's gonna work for the task at hand.
And as we've said with reading comprehension it's not necessarily one
frame would fit all situations and so you will need to build up a collection
of templates that a student can use for different types of writing task.
But then again the aim here is this reduces the cognitive load
during the writing process itself, because some of the thinking
is kind of done beforehand in terms of this structuring.