by Leslie Laud | May 28, 2025 | Instructional Planning
The Genre Shuffle: How Writing Instructional Planning Has Evolved – And Why Interleaving is Winning By Leslie Laud (think SRSD) and Tina Zampitella (AIM Academy) Leslie Laud is the director of think SRSD, an organization that works to research SRSD...
by Leslie Laud | Nov 1, 2023 | Conferring
Recently during an SRSD lesson, the teacher had students work independently, each choosing to revise a current draft or give peer feedback depending on where they were at in the writing process. In a preceding mini lesson, the class had just carefully reviewed an...
by Leslie Laud | Nov 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
SRSD Goes Virtual! Well – I’m guessing none of us had worldwide pandemic on our 2020 Bingo card, but here we are! Since many of us are gearing up for full or hybrid virtual instruction, here are some tips to keep SRSD #GoingStrong! Get Ready – Aim for...
by Leslie Laud | Nov 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
You’ve all seen writing from students who struggle at the sentence (syntax/grammar) level – full of fragments, run ons, missing punctuation, unclear ideas etc. Are you wondering what the most powerful, evidence-based and time-efficient approaches are for supporting...
by Leslie Laud | Nov 1, 2021 | Publishing
Guest blog by Heidi Poulin, Reading Specialist, Hatfield, MA Three years ago, our school embraced a new writing initiative – SRSD. We were fortunate enough to work with thinkSRSD to help launch and lead all of us through the implementation. As with any new,...
