Welcome to the June 16, 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're here! For Teachers of Writers What Are Your Questions About Teaching Writing? Whether you've been in the classroom for 20 years or 2 years, we've all got questions about teaching writing. I'd love to feature your questions in a "Questions From the Classroom" section in my upcoming book about teaching writing. Please s

Welcome to the April 7, 2018 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of tips for teaching writing and for growing a writing habit yourself. Thank you for stopping by! For Teachers of Writers Hooking Your Reader: Did you catch our post this week, "Fantastic First Lines?" It includes a free resource for you to use with your students to help them play with their opening lines and try on a few different techniques to find one that will really grab the attention of their read

I love a good mentor text. Bringing a mentor text into your writing workshop reinforces the reading/writing connection. It can teach about the craft of writing and show student-writers how certain craft moves work. Mentor texts can also help spark ideas and provide a roadmap for students to try new things with their writing. I consider it a double-bonus when those mentor texts are also stories about writing. How better to drive home your lesson about writing than with a chara

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Welcome to the February 3, 2018 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of tips for teaching writing and for growing your own writing life. Thank you for stopping by! For Teachers of Writers Mentor Texts For Argument Writing: This week, NCTE shared a list of books and speeches that are perfect mentor texts for teaching argument writing. There is something on this list for everyone and every grade. Writing Prompts for Argument Writing: Now that you've got your mentor text

Welcome to the December 17, 2017 edition of The Writing Round-Up, a gathering of some of our favorite finds to help us teach writers and grow our own writing habits. We've got a fun issue this week (and a surprise for next week!) so let's get started... For Teachers of Writers: Drawing in the Writing Classroom: Facing the blank page is daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Sarah Donovan shares how she uses drawing to help spark writing ideas and get past the blank page problem

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