Topic: Teaching Writing

A list of Heinemann professional books published in 2023.

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

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.

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.

The craft decisions involved in creating an actual graphic novel are numerous, varied, and complex—but they can be explicitly taught and learned, practiced and perfected.

Learn more about writing stances and craft moves that not only cultivate positive behaviors about writing but encourage a willingness—and even enthusiasm—to revise.

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

It helps to start small. A beautifully crafted sentence is filled with interesting decisions the writer has made, and there’s so much to learn.

To help writers make progress, Katherine Bomer says that stepping back from what’s wrong and looking for what’s strong can make all the difference.

In this sample chapter from Lucy Calkins' highly anticipated Teaching Writing, Lucy discusses how she came to the field of writing instruction.