The Write Stuff - Virginia

Virginia's Students Write across the Curriculum

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Ellen Smith Alden – Writing: The Human Record

If you’re going to contribute something, then you have to be able to write it. Writing is the record of human life, so what we are recording means something.  Maybe in a hundred years they won’t get it, but at… Continue Reading →

Will Mackintosh – Linking Thinking, Speaking, and Writing

Writing and thinking are not distinct processes.  You don’t really know what you think until you put it down on the page and enforce some kind of discipline and organization upon it.  I stress writing as a means of organizing… Continue Reading →

Robin Simmons – Taming the Blank Page

“First and foremost, I want writing to be something that my students aren’t afraid of, which is very difficult at the middle school level because writing is very hard.  It’s my goal to encourage strengths first before we review their… Continue Reading →

Lee Schleifer Brosius – Tapping into the Elementary Goldmine

“Writing gives my students a deeper understanding of any content that I teach.  If I simply give them a list of things to memorize, they’re going to cram for a test and then forget it; however, if I can get… Continue Reading →

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