Have Students Write Every Day  (Graham, Harris & Larsen, 2001)

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Short daily writing assignments can build student writing fluency and make writing a more motivating activity.

For struggling writers, formal writing can feel much like a foreign language, with its own set of obscure grammatical rules and intimidating vocabulary. Just as people learn another language more quickly and gain confidence when they use it frequently, however, poor writers gradually develop into better writers when they are prompted to write daily--and receive rapid feedback and encouragement about that writing. The teacher can encourage daily writing by givin