Sopris West’s Step Up to Writing program offers a sequential and straightforward strategy to address the complex challenges of student writing found in today’s world.  This logical and chronological device is designed for kindergarten to eighth grade to improve writing proficiency in all learners regardless of ability level, with multi-sensory, classroom-proven teaching techniques and student writing activities.  It offers detailed guidelines for note-taking skills, organization
of ideas, topic and support sentence construction, solid and flowing paragraph composition, and story and research paper completion.  Additionally, the Step Up to Writing approach provides teachers with clear and appropriate methods to track the students’ performance and rubrics to evaluate the students’ progress.  Furthermore, besides being easily woven into our established Language Arts program, it also enhances writing skills in all the content areas.