Writing

Writing to the Prompt: When Students Don't Have a Choice.

Writing Unbound

Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers

In Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing.Consider this:...

Writing Workshop : The Essential Guide

Is the writing workshop the only way to teach writing? No. There are a variety of approaches or programs, but none of them matches the writing workshop when it comes to growing strong writers. That's why, despite the pressures of testing, the writing...

Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing Now

Students just want to write if they are invited and permitted to do so—by and with their teacher in conversation. In Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing Now, teachers are guided to see students as scribes with diverse abilities, backgrounds,...