Although educators understand that writing is one key to academic success, many teachers feel overwhelmed by the wide range of writing abilities in their classrooms. Teachers are inundated with packaged programs, conference workshops, and textbook publishers' viewpoints on sound writing instruction. Understanding learning theories can aid educators in selecting materials for classroom use and meeting the needs of a variety of learners. Multiple intelligences, constructivism, and social learning theory all have important instructional implications for …showed first 75 words of 1511 total…

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