Our Services
Training and Support for Writing Instruction
Radius Literacy Group partners with schools to strengthen writing instruction, refine assessment practices, and build a literacy culture across disciplines. From short-term, high-impact workshops to multi-year strategic partnerships, Radius Literacy Group adapts to meet schools where they are and works directly and cooperatively with teachers to grow alongside their needs.
The ELA classroom serves as the foundation for developing student voice, identity, and rhetorical awareness. We extend this work through Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), where writing becomes a disciplinary tool for inquiry and learning across academic subjects. We support the development of school-wide writing centers that make literacy instruction dynamic and collaborative. Our consulting aligns these systems vertically and across disciplines by centering writing as inquiry, creating institutional coherence, and supporting writing transfer.
ELA Writing Instruction
Develop a shared language for writing instruction across ELA departments.
Frame reading, writing, and grammar as rhetorical practices within genre-based instruction.
Establish a process-based writing and revision framework.
Translate writing theory into practical classroom strategies.
Design writing tasks that are purposeful, authentic, and student-centered.
Reduce instructional and assessment burden for faculty.
Curriculum Design and Vertical Alignment
Audit writing curriculum to identify gaps, redundancies, and misalignment across courses and grade levels.
Establish coherent vertical and horizontal alignment for consistent and cumulative instruction.
Embed writing as a tool for inquiry, learning, and disciplinary thinking.
Build shared school-wide literacy frameworks.
Align writing expectations between departments and sequence writing skill development by grade level.
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Support collaboration between ELA and content-area teachers.
Embed writing in non-ELA classes.
Develop writing transfer skills.
Align writing instruction language, practices, and expectations across departments.
Build discipline-specific writing awareness.
Integrate writing to learn as a practice across disciplines.
Design professional learning for interdisciplinary writing instruction.
Feedback, Assessment, and Revision
Prioritize feedback from high- to lower-order concerns.
Develop single-point rubrics to simplify feedback and revision.
Implement structured peer review protocols.
Use reflection to support revision and writing transfer.
Redesign grading systems using labor-based grading, specifications grading, and ungrading approaches.
Shift assessment toward learning-centered feedback rather than score justification.
Writing Centers
Design and implement campus writing centers as hubs for student writing support.
Train administrators, faculty, and students in rhetorical and disciplinary writing support.
Develop structured consultation and feedback processes.
Build connections between classroom instruction and writing center support.
Integrate writing centers into school academic culture.