Visit BrainPop.com to check out their movies on writing and related topics.

//

I always enjoy visiting the writingfix.com site. It is a great source foe mentor text mini lessons for the qwriitng workshop.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (lesson link)
All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan (lesson link)
America : A Patriotic Primer by Lynne Cheney (lesson link)
Bad Case of [...]

Carpenters Middle poetry students share at coffeehouse, written by Melanie Tucker, The Daily Times
Charter school legislation to be subject of state board meeting, written by Dana Beyerle, The Gadsden Times
Defining ‘College Ready,’ Nationally, written by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
Education Innovation Is Lagging — But Is There Hope?, written by Seyward Darby, The New Republic
Schools [...]

by Laura Johnson: Writers’ Workshop in the classroom is something that a teacher can utilize when deciding to engage students in an original writing activity. With a little planning, Writers’ Workshop can be incorporated into the daily classroom routine as a means of fostering creativity and motivation among students. Writers’ Workshop can promote literacy development [...]

Writing Resources

The Literature Link: A Series of Lessons for Teaching Writing Using Children’s Literature
http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/Handouts/lessons.pdf
This publication is a book of lessons designed to reinforce the features of effective writing.  It grew out of a desire to create a bibliography of picture books that would be powerful models for teaching writing to the students of North Carolina.  [...]

Mark Mil Liken Pointing

 Here are 15 free ed-tech resources worth exploring:
Empressr – Empressr is a free, online presentation tool. It can be used to upload photos, audio, and video. Uploaded information can be shared publicly or with a select group of people.
Web-Chops – This unique web app makes it easy for teachers to share portions of the web [...]

From one of the top teachers of wriitng comes a book about launching a writing workshop. You can purchase the book from heinemann.com.
Launching A Writing Workshop by Ralph Fletcher

Teachers are constantly immersing and engaging their students in many materials and ideas. It is valuable to offer the means for young thinkers to synthesize all of these experiences to create new knowledge. This article gives many ways for young thinkers to “handle” their new found information and to assemble it into some form of [...]

Ralph Fletcher writes in his book, “boy Writers”, about how we are cheating the male population in our writing workshops. Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades. In general, boys don’t enjoy writing as much as girls. What’s wrong? How can we do a better of job of [...]

I love technology. I use three computer languages to write in, I develop web sites, I train others to use technology in their writing workshops and I at times turn my back on the technology I love. I was born in 1951. I am of an era that use to write letters. We would take [...]

All the Places to Love Lesson

After many years of teaching the writing workshop I have found there are some key parts that one must have in place in order to provide a successful environment for the young writers.

 Author(s): Katie Wood Ray, Lester L. Laminack  In The Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray offers a practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to support both new and experienced teachers. While every aspect of writing workshop is geared to support children learning to write, this kind of teaching is often challenging because what writers really do is engage in [...]

A mini-lesson focuses on a specific teaching point and lasts five to twenty minutes. You can teach a mini-lesson with a whole group, small group, or with individual students. Mini-lessons are ideal for quick lessons leading to active engagement.
Steps for Completing a Mini-Lesson
Before you plan your mini-lesson, you need to determine your teaching point. A [...]

Following is a list of no-cost Web 2.0 sites that are available for teachers to evaluate. Many of these tools are on the open Internet, so look at them carefully before using with your students! Be sure to check out myShedding Light on Web 2.0page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers [...]

I‘ve often been asked, “What is your method for teaching writing?” I think in my earlier books I tried to respond to the question by giving specific instructions—first this, then that. .Granted, there are some systematic and highly structured elements to teaching writing, but I didn’t realize until I wrote the introduction to Nancie Atwell’s [...]

General Resources:

Alt.usage.english newsgroup
Keith Ivey’s English Usage Page
Mark Israel’s FAQ for alt.usage.english
World Wide Words (Michael Quinion) — An extensive site “devoted to the English language – its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution.” Always interesting.
English Usage, Style, & Composition — A collection of reference works at Bartleby.com, including American Heritage, Strunk & White, Fowler’s King’s English, and [...]

I’ve started a new site.It is devoted to publishing student writing. To make writing public, the writer must have an audience. The audience becomes the writer’s stimulus–the purpose for writing. If children do not have a purpose for writing (i.e., an intended audience) then writing becomes an “exercise” for a non-communicative event. Children who have [...]

Publish at Scribd or explore others: leadership spirituality

Publish at Scribd or explore others:

I’ve visited countless writing classrooms over the years and it has always been interesting to me why some work and others don’t. I do believe that writing classrooms that incorporate Donald Graves’ seven conditions for effective writing find greater success than those that skip these basic writer needs. I’ve come to think though that there [...]

There are many ways to teach writing. I believe that in any writing class it is important that some features are put into place and fostered throughout the year to provide the rich, healthy environment that will elicit high quality writing. There is a chapter from Donald Grave’s book, A Fresh Look at Writing that [...]

Tag
Get your own at Scribd or explore others:

Get your own at Scribd or explore others:

7739729 Writing Using the Five Senses

William Blake Style Poetry 2
Get your own at Scribd or explore others:

Story Shapes Circular
Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Education Teaching mentor texts writers workshop

Classroom Poster
Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Education Teaching mentor texts mini lessons

Poem Two Voices
Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Education Teaching ill read to you you read to me

“Process writing is learning how to write by writing,” notes Stone (1995, p. 232). This current emphasis in writing instruction focuses on the process of creating writing rather than the end product (Tompkins, 1990). The basic premise of process writing is that all children, regardless of age, can write. The initial focus is on creating [...]

Writing Conferences are only one part of the writing process. If properly introduced and incorporated, conferring in groups becomes a most beneficial tool to improve student writing. In the group conference, students should be positive, constructive, and specific-behaviors which middle school students do not normally practice. This group conference method does as much to develop [...]

Symptoms and Cures for Writer’s Block from The Owl
From the editors at “The Owl at Purdue”, Because writers have various ways of writing, a variety of things can cause a writer to experience anxiety, and sometimes this anxiety leads to writer’s block. Often a solution can be found by speaking with your instructor (if you are [...]

ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation.

NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based [...]

Since 2001, the Northern Nevada Writing Project has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website, which aims to “fix” those teachers who don’t believe that the teaching of writing can be both fun and rewarding.
If you explore our website’s pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared–and then posted here–during workshops and [...]

BOYNE CITY – Boyne City sixth-grade language arts teacher, Dan Polleys, is advancing his profession and helping others to get better – and he’s being recognized for his efforts.
As a result of his involvement and leadership with the Top-of-the-Mitt Writing Project of the Red Cedar Writing Project, Polleys has been invited to attend a national [...]

I am a member of the National Writing Project and a Co Director of the Indiana University Southeast Writing Project in New Albany, Indiana. I am proud of our long standing reputation as a premier professional development approach for teachers of writing across the country. Our history is long and well documented in its success. 

NWP began [...]

All the Places to Love Lesson Mentor Text Mini Lesson

Literary Terms

I Never Told Anyone

Writers Lifeblood