Topic: Writing Instruction

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.

Tips to help you adapt your writing workshop to support multilingual language learners.

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.

In what ways can an understanding of the relationship between reading and writing make planning more efficient?

Heinemann is pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing line of audiobooks, Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers by Thomas Newkirk.

Students can be made aware of all the decisions they are making when crafting a photo and be encouraged to apply that thinking to their writing.

Today on the podcast we have a special conversation hosted by author Carl Anderson with his longtime friend and colleague, author Matt Glover.

In this video, Allison & Rebekah explain how simple it can be to get the creative juices flowing with inspiration from 'analysis in the wild'.

When teaching whole-class novels, Roberts continually asks two questions to determine if her teaching practice truly has students' interests in mind:

In this video, Amy VanDerwater explains that if we are able to harness a love of poetry and use it as a way to demonstrate writing techniques across genres, students gain a better understanding of writing overall.

In this video, Allison & Rebekah explain how they've shied away from the bread and butter literary analysis approach, and instead push their students to write with passion and authority about topics they care about, effectively bringing their whole selves to their writing.

Poetry is something that is happening now, everywhere, and we need to bring it into the classroom. In Poems Are Teachers, Amy introduces the skills and techniques involved in writing a poem and how it connects to writing across all genres.

In her new book, VanDerwater argues that poems should be the backbone of writing instruction, instead of being swept under the carpet as an afterthought.

Supporting Convention Work in the Units of Study: Punctuation and Spelling