Topic: Teaching Writing

Writing minilessons are a powerful tool for teachers, helping students to grow as independent writers.

Record-keeping systems allow you to consolidate data, study individual progress, track the frequency with which you meet with students, and easily access and update your data across time.

Here are six tools you can slowly introduce into your classroom writing center to support student independence.

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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.

As humans we have the great gift, the great evolutionary achievement, of speech and story. It’s what we do best—and all literacy instruction needs to honor and build on that gift.

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Tips to help you adapt your writing workshop to support multilingual language learners.

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.

Interactive writing is a time for writing to come alive as children share their thinking. Watch Matt Halpern talk about the key concepts and skills of interactive writing in a fun and informative video.

Interactive writing is a powerful tool to scaffold children’s literacy skills toward independence. Learn more in this new blog from new Heienmann author, Matt Halpern.

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.