Topic: Student Writing

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.

The goal of our new book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, is to help you become really good at teaching writing.

By understanding and valuing each writing process stage, you can guide students from initial ideas to completed works. Because as writing mentors, our goal isn’t just to teach writing—but to inspire a love for it.

In our forthcoming book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, we focus on the question of how to help teachers become good writing teachers.

Strong writing minilessons open a world of possibilities for learners, creating an environment that nurtures students’ ability to write with purpose, imagination, and voice.

Children not only need to write, they also need direct, explicit instruction in the skills and qualities of effective writing.

Student engagement is crucial for students to learn to write well. When students are engaged, they’re more likely to learn.

In what ways can an understanding of the relationship between reading and writing make planning more efficient?

Highly effective writing teachers teach with mentor texts. In direct instruction lessons, teachers explain the techniques to students.

State standards are a guide to all that we ask kids to do as writers and readers. They are not meant to be out of context as a stand-alone lesson.

Writing preferences can launch us into successful writing experiences, they can also hold us back from trying something new. Enter writing experiments.

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