Welcome to the September 15, 2018 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of tips for teaching writing and for growing as a teacher writer. Below you will find some tips from around the web to help you do either -- or both! If you haven't already, be sure to sign up for our email list to make sure you don't miss an update! Let's get started! Another Reason to Write: Still stalling on starting your own writing habit? Students who are taught to write by teachers who write

Welcome to the May 26, 2018 edition of the Teach Write Writing Round-Up, a gathering of tips for teaching writing and for growing as a teacher who writes. We appreciate you stopping by! As you begin to think about your summer plans, don't forget about online writing workshops that will be starting in the end of June in the Teach Write Academy. Either one is a great opportunity to meet other teacher-writers and get some writing done this summer. Come write with us! For Teacher

Welcome to the April 14, 2018 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of tips for teaching writing and for growing as a teacher-writer yourself. Thanks for stopping in! For Teachers of Writers Keep Them Moving Forward: How do you keep students moving forward through the writing process, given that the writing process looks different for every writer? Read "Revision? Pshhh...I Write Best Under Pressure" from Hattie Maguire and Moving Writers. Poetry & the Writer's Noteboo

Welcome to the March 31, 2018 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of tips for teaching writing and for growing as a writer yourself. We are glad you are here! For Teachers of Writers Blast Through Writing Instruction Roadblocks: Are you ready to ramp up your writing instruction? Don't know what's holding your students back from growing as writers? Brian Kissel has some tips for you in his ASCD Educational Leadership journal article, "Six Roadblocks to Writing Instruc

This week on The Writing Round-Up: Increasing writing effectiveness, pondering poetry, growing student-writers, conferring & more!

Welcome to the March 10, 2018 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of tips for teaching writing and for growing your own writing habit. We feature new ideas every week so be sure to sign up to have our updates delivered right to your inbox here. Let's get started! For Teachers of Writers Vexing Vocabulary: If grammar rules keep you running in circles, you'll enjoy "Vexing Vocabulary, Part 1" from Laura Feinberg Cooper and the Writers' Rumpus website. I finally underst

Welcome to the January 21, 2018 edition of The Writing Round-Up, our weekly resource of some of our favorite ideas for teaching writing and for growing your own writing life. Thank you for spending some time with us today! Let's get started... For Teachers of Writers Paragraph Power!: Learning how to include paragraphs in writing is an important skill for all writers. Paragraphs make the job of reading so much easier for the reader. Want to see what I mean? Check out the exam

Welcome to this week's edition of the Writing Round-Up! We are getting super excited to head to St. Louis for the NCTE Annual Convention next week to take in all the amazingness that is literacy. Will you be there? Tweet us at @TeachWriteEDU and let us know! We've got a great Writing Round-Up for you this week so let's get started: For Teachers of Writers A New Form of Writing: We've seen the annotated-list headlines everywhere: Seven Ways to Start Your Day, Ten Books Your Cl

Welcome to the September 24th, 2017 edition of the Writing Round-Up! I'm so glad you are here this week. I've found some awesome tips and articles that I can't wait to share with you so let's get started: For Teachers of Writers What Hummingbirds Can Teach Us About Conferring: Conferring with student writers can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. Patty McGee, author of the awesome book, Feedback That Moves Writers Forward, shares some more tips for conferring that she discovere

Welcome to the August 27, 2017 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of some of our favorite tips for teaching writing and being a teacher-writer. Let's get started... For Teachers of Writers What's in a Name? Do you teach a 'writing workshop' or a 'writers' workshop'? Have you ever stopped to think about the difference between these two phrases? Brian Kissel has and what he shares in his article, "Writing Workshop vs. Writers' Workshop" will explain the important diff

This week's WRU shares ideas for teaching leads, summer writing games, why teachers should write & more!

Spring has sprung and the countdown to summer is ON! Need a little inspiration to spark your writing instruction in these final weeks? Here are a few of our favorite ideas from this past week: Feedback That Moves Writers Forward: Did you catch the #G2Great chat with author Patty McGee on April 6th? If you didn't, you can catch up on what you missed on the Literacy Lenses blog. (It was AMAZING!) Patty is the author of the new book, Feedback That Moves Writers Forward, and sh

Hey friends! Are you looking for some teaching ideas to finish your writing year strong? Here's a recap of of our favorite writing instruction posts from around the web from this past week. #G2Great Chat with Colleen Cruz, author of The Unstoppable Writing Teacher: Dr. Mary Howard recaps this engaging chat with the #G2Great community and author Colleen Cruz. There were so many great takeaways from this chat and lots of inspiration for us writing teachers. Being Present with Y