Topic: Writing

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.

How do you approach essay, poetry, book clubs, and digital composition? If we reimagine our approach we can open the door to more engaged and challenging learning.

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.

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.

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.

Student engagement is crucial for students to learn to write well. When students are engaged, they’re more likely to learn.