“…However, these difficulties continue to persist (IAVE, 2019(IAVE, , 2021 and were intensified by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic which impaired students' learning process worldwide (e.g., Gupta & Jawanda, 2020). Against this background, several studies and prior research have reinforced the need to design valid and theoretically and empirically based interventions to improve students' writing skills (Barrett et al, 2020;Festas et al, 2015;Fidalgo et al, 2011;Graham, Liu et al, 2018;Högemann et al, 2018Högemann et al, , 2021Limpo & Alves, 2013b;Prata et al, 2019;Rosário et al, 2017Rosário et al, , 2019Veiga Simão et al, 2016). Moreover, the literature in this field has invested in understanding how elementary school settings can offer opportunities to stimulate core competences of the learning process such as critical thinking, problem solving and autonomy (Bronson, 2000).…”