Topic: Writing

The writing process is a structured series of steps all writers use to develop their work. Let’s explore the six different stages of writing.

To empower students to survive and live empathetically, invite them to write about moments of discrimination. Included is a student example and assignment outline.

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

Writing workshop minilessons are meant as intervals for explicit, brief instruction in skills and strategies that then become part of a writer’s ongoing repertoire.

To teach writing well, it is important to know about qualities of the four major genres of writing.

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.

This adapted excerpt from Every Kid a Writer offers insight into how giving writers an audience of real readers can reignite passion and interest.

This week Kelly Boswell and Blake Williams discuss the impact of offering choice in the elementary writing classroom.

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

Understand and value each writing process stage to guide students from initial ideas to completed works.

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.

Shared reading sparks joy, inquiry, student talk and agency. Shared reading is more engaging and impactful than any other whole-class literacy instruction.

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.