Topic: Writing

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.

This is what we want for our students: the ability to look at multiple sources and triangulate meaning from a variety of perspectives.

In this video, author Sunday Cummins explains how we want students to ask questions and then actively seek out answers by locating and reading or viewing multiple sources—articles, books, videos, photographs, infographics. Then, we want students to articulate what they've learned.

Whatever your teaching constraints may be, choice and joy can find a place your classroom.

Here, Jen has created a handy downloadable chart to illustrate the connections between goals in The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book.

I have a confession: I love to cut. Almost nothing pleases me more than to read through a manuscript and find entire chapters that can be placed under the guillotine

Many students are already social media experts. Tapping into their knowledge to channel them to try new books and to reflect on their work can be powerful.

As students move up the grades and further in their history educations, they will be expected to write about it in increasingly sophisticated ways.

It may seem strange to think about cultivating focus. Although natural abilities can vary, focus can be improved, cultivated, and taught.

Because of the myriad ways writing workshop and oral language development are linked, it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Tom Newkirk was recently featured in a 207 TV Interview on his book Embarrassment.

New York Times, Best-selling author Jennifer Serravallo talks about her new on-demand course: Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content.

Experience is what matters. Experience may be the best teacher, but does it get in the way of some of the best teaching?

Once we can get past the idea that poems are in their own little word, they open up a world of possibilities in the classroom.

Remembering Dr. Rozlyn Linder

Let’s talk about Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style cuts – hacking off large sections of your manuscript to make it better. How do you know where to begin?

Information writing is one of those topics that can seem, on the outset, rather dull. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's how.