“…Indeed, to our knowledge, there have been four compareecontrast instructional studies conducted prior to the present study, and all addressed these elements (Englert, Raphael, Anderson, Anthony, & Stevens, 1991;Hammann & Stevens, 2003;Torrance, Fidalgo, & Garcia, 2007;Wong, Butler, Ficzere, & Kuperis, 1997). The participants in these studies were students from 4th-to 10th-grade and instruction included many of the following elements: teacher modeling of writing strategies, pair/group work, independent work, examples of texts, and feedback on practice work.…”