Topic: Linda Rief

Penny Kittle, Linda Rief, and Tom Romano are hosting a-four day series. The focus is two-pronged: the craft of writing memoir, and teachers as writers.

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.

Provide time to find poems, time to read them, time to hear them, and time to reflect on the poem through talking, writing, and drawing.

It is about helping our students develop the mindsets essential to writers who learn and grow with each other and from each other.

From Linda Rief, author of The Quickwrite Handbook.

In this third Turn and Talk discussion, Ellin is joined by Linda Rief (The Quickwrite Handbook) and Sara Ahmed (Being the Change) as they share their stories of their teaching journeys, teacher autonomy, and student inquiry.

Writing in particular can be challenging for students early in the year. Quickwrites can be incorporated into your writing instruction at any time to spark students' creativity and energy, making them an accessible and readily available tool.

Following are some practices developed around quickwrites to help students read and write successfully.

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, a special conversation between Linda Rief and Penny Kittle. Both are at the Boothbay Literacy Institute. Penny talks with Linda about her new “The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students’ Thinking and Writing.

This year we join Kylene Beers, Robert Probst, Penny Kittle, Linda Rief, Chris Crutcher, and Teri Lesense, Kwame Alexander, and Kelly Gallagher to investigate aliteracy and our students through reading, thinking, and writing. We'll be adding to the blog as this multi-day institute progresses so keep checking back!

Writing and teaching writing can be intimidating. It is hard work, and it takes time. Quickwrites offer an easy and manageable writing experience that helps both students and teacher find their voices and develop their confidence, as they discover they have important things to say.

Quickwrites offer easy and manageable experiences that helps both students and teachers find their voices and develop their confidence.

Consider how to use writing to push professional thinking deeper discussions from Heinemann Fellows and authors.

Each year, educators from across the country travel to Boothbay, Maine, to work with colleagues and literacy experts on issues of reading and writing.

Boothbay Literacy Institute: Day Three and Liagnappe

Boothbay Literacy Institute: Day Two

Boothbay Literacy Institute: Day One

Boothbay Literacy Institute: Sunday Opening Session