For the National Day on Writing, show students the joy, balance, and freedom that can come from writing.
"Fiction appeals to students battered by the rules of writing and test preparation—students who have never experienced the freedom of writing," writes Mary Adler in Writers at Play. With her suggestions you’ll give adolescents stifled by curricular mandates a way into writing that develops maturity, richness of language, and craft—and nurtures joy.
Regie Routman in Residence: Transforming Our Teaching Through Writing for Audience and Purpose
In Transforming Our Teaching Through Writing for Audience and Purpose takes a whole school through a year of transformation. It leads to new, effective practices that raise students’ writing achievement by improving teachers’ confidence and their ability to teach writing in any genre, in any curriculum.
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Don Murray's mission was to demystify writing by revealing as much as possible about the habits, processes, and practices of writers. The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher carries on his work and shows the evolution of his thinking by collecting his most influential pieces as well as unpublished essays, entries from his daybook, drawings, and numerous examples of his famous handouts.
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Ed Schuster, author of Breaking the Rules, questions the new core standards for writing in February 3rd’s Education Week.
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To see and hear Nancie's response to the article, click here.
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