Topic: Fiction

This adapted excerpt from Every Kid a Writer offers insight into how giving writers an audience of real readers can reignite passion and interest.

The study of 100-word stories teaches students to identify a story’s intrinsic architecture.

Read-aloud time is an opportunity to mentor children in the mindset, habits, and strategies of proficient readers.

The Complete Comprehension: Fiction expansion pack gives your students more choice in what they read for assessment, and you more options for matching students’ interest with their assessment book.

In this audiobook preview, Tom describes the vast opportunity found in fiction writing, and what we lose when we don’t embrace that opportunity in our classrooms.

Heinemann is pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing line of audiobooks, Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers by Thomas Newkirk.

When’s the last time your students got to write creatively? Or craft a piece of fiction that was entirely their own?

Learn why Tom Newkirk, author of Writing Unbound, believes he is not the ideal person to explore adolescent fiction writing but feels compelled to do it anyway.

If we want students to develop a love of books and writing, we need to bring fiction back to our writing curriculum,

Finding ways to bring fiction writing into the curriculum from Tom Newkirk, author of Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers.

Here you'll find answers to the most frequently asked questions about the Assess phase of Complete Comprehension.

While a whole book assessment is still a part of Complete Comprehension as it was IRA, there are numerous updates and improvements worth noting.

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