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1) Start-Up or Warm-Up The first 3-5 minutes of class time each day are regularly set aside for students to do a quick segment of writing on the topic of the upcoming lesson. (Reflections on my reading, questions I have this morning, highlights from the homework, or response to a specific daily question or quote [...]

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Peer Response Improvement Student writers need far more feedback than any single teacher can provide. What’s more, responding to someone else’s work can be a learning experience for the responder as well as for the recipient of the advice. For these reasons, many experts recommend the use of peer response groups, groups of students who [...]

Handling the Paper Load Consider this: Does the basketball coach isolate every error that each player makes and point them all out? Consider this: Do you recall any of the specific comments your teachers made on your compositions? Consider this: How many times have you corrected the spelling of a word on a student’s paper [...]

Community of Writers (Sociolinguistics) When we write, we must make many choices. We choose the subject matter and the discourse mode. Sometimes we choose the audience; at other times we shape discourse to fit a known audience. We choose language according to our sense of purpose and what we know about the audience. We employ [...]

Writing Workshop Approach The writing workshop approach is strongly advocated by a number of experts in the field of composing. Atwell, Romano, and Rief recommend it for middle and high school students. Donald Graves and Lucy Calkins also advocate this approach for elementary students. Similar preferences can be found to a lesser degree in the [...]

Writing Across the Curriculum Composition classes often focus on two types of discourse‹exposition and what is frequently identified as creative writing. Exposition generally refers to the writing of essays and eventually research papers. Creative writing usually refers to composing literary genres‹poetry, short stories, dramas, and even novels. Sometimes we also ask students to write literary [...]

Writing Workshop Approach The writing workshop approach is strongly advocated by a number of experts in the field of composing. Atwell, Romano, and Rief recommend it for middle and high school students. Donald Graves and Lucy Calkins also advocate this approach for elementary students. Similar preferences can be found to a lesser degree in the [...]

“Well, I shared my piece yesterday and I learned that it was good. It just needs a little work on the beginning, the middle, and the end.” This unsolicited sentence appeared as an enthusiastic observation in Heather’s writing journal the day after a group conference. Heather, a quiet eighth grade student, had shared her bicycle [...]

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I first met my friend Donald Graves in 1992 when I attended the University of New Hampshire Writing Program. Donald has had a greater impact on my teaching than any other mentor. When I visit writing classes to see if they are successful I always use his chapter titled, “The Seven Conditions for Effective Writing, [...]

I first met my friend Donald Graves in 1992 when I attended the University of New Hampshire Writing Program. Donald has had a greater impact on my teaching than any other mentor. When I visit writing classes to see if they are successful I always use his chapter titled,“The Seven Conditions for Effective Writing, from [...]

I first met my friend Donald Graves in 1992 when I attended the University of New Hampshire Writing Program. Donald has had a greater impact on my teaching than any other mentor. When I visit writing classes to see if they are successful I always use his chapter titled, “The Seven Conditions for Effective Writing, [...]

I first met my friend Donald Graves in 1992 when I attended the University of New Hampshire Writing Program. Donald has had a greater impact on my teaching than any other mentor. When I visit writing classes to see if they are successful I always use his chapter titled, “The Seven Conditions for Effective Writing, [...]

I first met my friend Donald Graves in 1992 when I attended the University of New Hampshire Writing Program. Donald has had a greater impact on my teaching than any other mentor. When I visit writing classes to see if they are successful I always use his chapter titled, “The Seven Conditions for Effective Writing, [...]

I first met my friend Donald Graves in 1992 when I attended the University of New Hampshire Writing Program. Donald has had a greater impact on my teaching than any other mentor. When I visit writing classes to see if they are successful I always use his chapter titled, “The Seven Conditions for Effective Writing, [...]

I first met my friend Donald Graves in 1992 when I attended the University of New Hampshire Writing Program. Donald has had a greater impact on my teaching than any other mentor. When I visit writing classes to see if they are successful I always use his chapter titled, “The Seven Conditions for Effective Writing, [...]

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The Write Way Donald Graves started a revolution just by watching young children as they wrote in school By Kimberly Swick Slover Photo by Lisa Nugent A class of second-graders at the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School in Bartlett, N.H., sits on the floor, on beanbags and in chairs, as their teacher, Lucy Swain, reads her [...]

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  from Heinemann.com / 30 some more titles An outstanding publication on the latest developments in writing instruction. —Language Arts When Lucy Calkins wrote the first edition of The Art of Teaching Writing, the writing workshop was a fledgling idea, piloted by a few brave innovators. Now, as she brings us this new edition, the [...]

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“Stepping On My Brother’s Head” and Other Secrets Your English Professor Never Told You Sondra Perl , Charles Schuster Pub Date: 3/1/2010 1 Product Type: Paperback Grade: College-College “Good Writers Read for Pleasure.” —Sondra Perl and Charles Schuster Sondra Perl and Charles Schuster know the importance of inspiring your writers to read. That’s what inspired [...]

Writing–elementary grades Products Strategic Writing Conferences Carl Anderson Pub Date: 11/13/2008 Product Type: Paperback + Box Package + DVD Grade: 3-6   Although conferences appear to be informal conversations, they are in fact highly principled teaching interactions designed to move writers along learning pathways. Used strategically, conferences can be powerful interventions that address individual writing [...]

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      Recent memories from the Indiana University Southeast Writing Project Summer and Advanced Institutes         //

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Students typically will write one of two ways. Many will play it safe and write about topics that don’t reveal too much about their lives. But, then you have writers that want to discover a truth or want to get something out of their system and to let the world hear their pain reverberate through [...]

The students’ writers’ notebooks is a place of wonder. It is a place they can store their secret memories, joys and questions. The notebook is a place they can revisit many times to “mine” for wiritng ideas.   //

This guest post is contributed by Anna Miller, who writes on the topic of online degree . She welcomes your comments at her email id: anna.miller009@gmail.com. How Rich Literature Helps Young Writers The best writers are those who are voracious readers; even when they’re established and successful, they know that they have to continue to [...]

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I’ve taught writing to third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders now for thirty-six years. I also am lucky enough to work as Co Director for the Indiana University Southeast Writing Project  and spend time with writers that are between 25- 60 years old. It is striking how similar the two groups are in terms of their [...]

Notice that Time and Newsweek wouldn’t print these letters. Submitted to Newsweek but not published 04/03/2010 To the editor Newsweek describes Pres. Obama’s education plan as “centrist” (“More big effing deals,” April 5, p. 33). Hardly. It is a radical plan, involving far more testing than we have ever seen in the history of American [...]

No Cheers for New Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s Dark Years in Chicago By KENNETH LIBBY Progressives across the country have been disappointed in President-elect Obama’s appointment of various cabinet members. As an educator, the appointment of Arne Duncan to Secretary of Education, particularly in light of Obama’s rhetoric and the platform of the Democratic Party, [...]