#LiteracyInstruction #ExplicitInstruction #Writing #OG #Teachers Subject Line: Must-Read Writing Resource: William Van Cleave's Writing Matters

✨ ✅ Explicit & Sequential: Covers syntax, sentence structure, paragraph building, and composition. ✅ Orton-Gillingham Friendly: Perfect for structured literacy classrooms. ✅ Practical: Loaded with templates, checklists, and sentence combining activities. ✅ No Fluff: Written for teachers, tutors, and parents who need actionable steps.

If you teach writing to students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, or working memory issues, you have likely heard of . His book, Writing Matters , is frequently called the "missing manual" for syntax instruction.

It is a practical guide that moves from the word level to the sentence level to the paragraph level. Van Cleave emphasizes that students cannot write a good paragraph if they cannot write a good sentence.