The journey to becoming a better writing teacher begins with aligning principles to practice in your classroom. One foundational principle of teaching writing is to immerse students in studying mentor texts: studying what other, more experienced writers do. In this free edWebinar, Carl Anderson and Matt Glover show you what the immersion period of writing workshop looks and sounds like, along with four action steps you can take to implement it in your classroom.

How to Become a Better Writing Teacher by Carl Anderson and Matt Glover is available now.

Carl Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in writing instruction for grades K-8. He works as a consultant in schools and districts around the world. Carl is the bestselling author of A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences and How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers.

Matt Glover has been a teacher, principal, author, and consultant for over 30 years. His latest book is Craft and Process Studies: Units that Provide Writers with Choice of Genre. He is the coauthor with Kathy Collins of I Am Reading, the author of Engaging Young Writers, coauthor with Mary Alice Berry of Projecting Possibilities for Writers, and coauthor with Katie Wood Ray of Already Ready and Watch Katie and Matt…Sit Down and Teach Up, a video-enhanced e-book that combines video and text to examine conferring with young writers. Along with Ellin Keene, Matt is the coeditor of The Teacher You Want to Be: Essays about Children, Learning, and Teaching. An internationally known literacy consultant, Matt frequently speaks on topics related to nurturing writers including engagement, choice, conferring, unit design, and oral language composition.