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 [...]

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Literary Terms

I Never Told Anyone

Writers Lifeblood

Good Job Guys

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 [...]

Our Mission
The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation’s educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners.
Our Vision
Writing in its many forms is the signature means of communication in the 21st century. The NWP envisions a future where every person is an accomplished writer, engaged learner, [...]

Mark Mil Liken Pointing

New Kirk

Launching A Writing Workshop by Ralph Fletcher

The Revision Toolbox TEACHING TECHNIQUES THAT WORK

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Writing Workshop Mini LessonsWriting Workshop Mini Lessons (book)
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Writing Workshop LessonsWriting Workshop Lessons (book)
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Carol out of the Box
Video Lessons in
Kinesthetic Learning for
Students and Teachers K-6
4-Tape Video Set
with free copy of Carol’s book
Learning On Their Feet

Why We Must Run with Scissors
Voice Lessons in Persuasive Writing, 290 pages By Barry Lane and Gretchen Bernabei

The School Essay Manifesto
Reclaiming the Essay for
Students and Teachers
by Thomas Newkirk
foreword by Barry Lane [...]

Most mentor texts are used by teachers to inspire student writers before they create a rough draft, but another powerful use of a mentor text is to bring it out after the draft has been created. Bringing out well-crafted and published material right before revision starts can make a discussion about writer’s craft have an [...]

 
Because Writing Matters : – Updated Paperback Edition
by National Writing Project and Carl Nagin (2003, Jossey-Bass)
$13.00

Writing is the single most important skill for students’ academic and professional success. Yet in the last twenty years, it has received little attention in our nation’s schools, and national assessments show that just one in four American students is [...]

Literature Connections

Pointing and Questioning Stems

Celebrate Secondary

Secondary

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is an approach that attempts to weave writing assignments throughout all content areas. Whether you are an English teacher, other content area specialist or in a self-contained full curriculum spectrum classroom, you undoubtedly already implement WAC to some degree. The question is, should you be more intentional about it?

What is [...]

Quick Writes
These are short pieces of writing designed to focus students’ thinking. Teachers can use quick writes to:

assess prior knowledge before instruction in order to set the stage for new information (ex. create a list of keywords, a list of questions, 3 things I know/don’t know)
give students time to write briefly on the day’s [...]

Celebrate

Intermediate

Sketching People Mini Lessons in Writing Workshop

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The writers’ workshop is exactly what Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde (1993) identified as a best practice in writing. The writers’ workshop can help improve students’ writing in the following ways:

Increase student ownership and responsibility by:

helping students choose their own topics and goals
using brief teacher-student conferences
teaching students to review their own progress

Increase class time spent on [...]

K
Joyful Learning in Kindergarten by Bobbi Fisher. ISBN 0-325-00038-7 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

1st
…And with a Light Touch: Learning about Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders by Carol Avery. ISBN 0-435-08787-8 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

2nd
On Their Way: Celebrating Second Graders as they Read and Write by Jane Fraser & Donna Skonick. ISBN 0-435-08830-5 Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

3rd
Invitations: Changing [...]

Ralph Fletcher writes in his book, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices,
“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 creating boy-friendly classrooms so their voices can be heard?
In [...]

Writing Workshop Checklist

Writing Workshop Mini LessonsWriting Workshop Mini Lessons (book)
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This book contains a collection of writing mini lessons for the writing workshop.

Writing Workshop LessonsWriting Workshop Lessons (book)
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Download: $10.00
A book full of writing workshop lessons.

Graphic Organizers for the Writing WorkshopGraphic Organizers for the Writing Workshop (book)
Print: $9.98
Download: $7.00
This book is full [...]

Yellow Sands

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Ralph Fletcher on Writers’ Notebooks:
What Should I Write About?
I’m not a big believer in “story starters“. I believe that the best ideas are living inside you. Your challenge is to dig them out. Do the writing only you can do. But every writer gets stuck from time to time so I’ve included a few ideas [...]

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