Topic: Writing

To support children in becoming strong, confident writers, we need to engage them in different types of meaningful studies within and across grade levels.

Narrative plays a bigger role in how we communicate than we give it credit for...

When students are provided opportunities to pursue writing in genres of their choice their engagement increases, which is a baseline requirement for a successful and joyful writing life.

Today on the podcast we’re examining the relationship between photography and writing.

When writing nonfiction, we have the whole gamut of narrative techniques at our disposal, but we aren’t just telling a story.

The ability to manipulate phrase and clause structures is the very essence of what makes a skilled, confident writer.

How do you feel about grammar? For many of us, it was a frustrating exercise that kept writing inaccessible.

Comparing a writer’s notebook to a collection strikes a chord with kids, many of whom are collectors themselves.

As they read, it’s important for students to get in the habit of asking not what, what, what, but why and how...

Today on the podcast, we're handing the podcast over to Heinemann Fellow Brian Melton...

This week on the Heinemann Podcast, Katherine Bomer speaks about her development as a writer and educator.

Photography can illuminate the craft of writing and help us understand it in a whole new way!

We truly want the best for our student writers, and we do not want them to be judged for any perceived lack of intelligence about “correctness” in writing.

When we say we teach students to remember, we mean we support students as they recall and retell—with specificity—what happened in their writing practice.

To foster a conversation and culture of collaboration, it is vital that assignments not be treated as though they were written in stone. How could they be when the kids and conditions we work with change so much each year?

When student writers know how to reflect, they know how to learn from their writing experiences. It’s one thing to experience something, but if the experience is then forgotten or not connected in any direct way to other experiences, how is it useful?

Today on the Heinemann podcast author Tom Newkirk explores the value of creating worlds through fiction writing. As Tom says, “our minds were made for stories,” so he decided to sit down with high school students to hear about the fiction they write in and out of school…

Today on the podcast, we’re talking with Anne Whitney, Colleen McCracken, and Deana Washell, co-authors of “Teaching Writers to Reflect: Strategies for a More Thoughtful Writing Workshop.”