Welcome to interactive writing, a foundational classroom practice that helps our youngest students discover the joy of writing as a community of learners.  Letters, sounds, spelling patterns, and concepts of print come to life when teachers share the pen with children, collaborating to create text.

A Teacher’s Guide to Interactive Writing shares the principles,... more

The Writing Strategies Book collects 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and groups them beneath 10 crucial goals. With this resource you’ll:

• develop individual goals for every writer
• give students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft
• coach writers using prompts aligned to a strategy
• present

Writing assignments are road maps—or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination.  They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it:  “What we are really doing when we create a year’s worth of writing assignments, of experiences, is designing a story.  Each day’s class a sentence, each week a paragraph, each unit a chapter... more

In this step-by-step guide, Carl Anderson shows you how to put teaching with mentor texts at the center of the way you teach writing in your elementary classroom. You’ll learn how to find just-right mentor texts for your students, analyze them for multiple craft and convention teaching points, and teach with mentor texts with your whole class, in small group lessons, and... more

How to Become a Better Writing Teacher is a hands-on, practical guide for teachers looking to improve their writing instruction. Carl and Matt offer 50 high-impact actions teachers can take to level up key aspects of their practice, including:

• getting to know your students as people and assessing them as writers
• increasing student engagement in

Anyone who has taught writing knows that sometimes the hardest part about teaching writing is getting students to write at all. 

What we sometimes forget, Kelly Boswell reminds us, is that every writer is reluctant to write at some point. It’s the conditions––not the kids––that determine success. In Every Kid A Writer, Kelly provides six field-tested... more

Your next writing lesson? It's already planned!

Teachers: having trouble finding the time to plan engaging new writing minilessons? Check out Get Focused, a digital writing resource unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

On-demand video lessons from Ralph Fletcher

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Develop fifth-grade students' deep knowledge of literacy concepts with these must-have writing minilessons: 225 concise, explicit, whole-group lessons with a purposeful application in building students' literacy power. With The Writing Minilessons Book, Grade 5, engage students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can... more