Empowering striving writers to thrive as writers! When we think of students who have faced instructional challenges as striving writers, their path to success becomes clearer. It may not be the same path their classmates travel, but with you as their guide, they will reach their goal. This book, filled with practical strategies, classroom-management ideas, reproducible tools, as well as low and high-tech solutions for increasing output and boosting self-esteem will also help you: implement principles of UDL to optimize your classroom environment and student learning; identify and honor students' strengths throughout your writing instruction; maximize the power of formative assessment to set goals with students; and integrate the most appropriate technology that empowers students and leads them to independence.