“It seemed without fail that if I put the kids together to write, it worked out better than I ever imagined.” One of the major challenges for teachers of writing has always been finding ways to stimulate student buy-in during the writing… Continue Reading →
“Middle school is the time for students to take what they learned in elementary school and develop it into coherent thoughts for communication. It’s the time to develop their own writing voice.” As teachers under pressure from mandates and… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
“In our efforts to help students learn, I think we are often overlooking something that’s easy to implement, which is to use writing as a way to reinforce and foster the learning of content knowledge. The idea that good writing… Continue Reading →
“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 →
As a teacher, I faced a dilemma regarding my students’ levels of readiness in understanding and effectively using figurative language and imagery to create meaningful messages. They struggled with ways to utilized design aesthetics when presenting information and in understanding… Continue Reading →
Dear Readers, Why writing? Why now? Or perhaps that second question should be why not? There seems to be a pervading belief throughout education that writing belongs solely to the English domain, that time and resources prohibit its incorporation into… Continue Reading →
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