Exemplary Practice

           The exemplary practice for this study stems from the Self-Regulated Strategy Model

 (SRSD) developed  by Steve Graham and Karen Harris (1993). SRSD was founded on six stages

 of instruction (De La Paz & Graham, 2002, p. 691). With the SRSD model, students first build 

their background knowledge prior to working with strategies and then are more able to 

manipulate information through the use of the instructional strategies. Second, students and the

 teacher must explicitly discuss the instructional strategies that will be implemented as well as 

the benefits and expectations for those strategies. Third,the teacher must model the strategies

 for students so that they can see a tangible representation of strategies in use. Fourth, 

students must work to memorize the strategies. Fifth, students and the teacher must work 

collaboratively as the strategies are implemented so that they are supported in their practice. 

Finally, students must engage in independent application of the strategies (Luke, 2006). 

Through the implementation of these stages, students learn to set goals, engage in self-

instruction, monitor their writing and learning processes, and reinforce their own learning (Luke,

 2006).