During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 10 years. You can see all those collections from the first nine years here.
Here are the ones I鈥檝e published so far:
The 11 Most Popular Classroom Q&A Posts of the Year
School Closures & the Coronavirus Crisis
Best Ways to Begin the School Year
Best Ways to End the School Year
Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning
Challenging Normative Gender Culture in Education
Cooperative & Collaborative Learning
Teaching English-Language Learners
Today鈥檚 theme is on writing instruction. You can see the list of posts following this excerpt from one of them:
*Teaching Writing Requires Leaving Students With an 鈥業 Can Do It!鈥� Spirit
Three educators share suggestions for writing instruction, including a visual-thinking strategy.
* Four Strategies for Effective Writing Instruction
Three educators share their best ideas on K-12 writing instruction, including writing frames and graphic organizers.
* Seven Strategies for Grammar Instruction
Five educators share instructional strategies for engaging and effective grammar instruction.
* 17 Approaches for Encouraging Students to Revise Their Writing
Five educators offer instructional strategies to use when teaching writing revision, including the power of an authentic audience.
* Ways to Help Ignite Students鈥� Intrinsic Desire for Writing Revision
Five educators make suggestions that might help students want to revise their writing, including by using 鈥渆diting stations.鈥�
* 鈥業 No Longer Give Grades on Student Writing Assignments, and It鈥檚 the Best Thing Ever!鈥�
Five educators share how they have helped students motivate themselves to revise their writing.
* Making Revision of Writing a 鈥楥ollaborative Process鈥�
Six educators discuss strategies they鈥檝e used to encourage students to revise their writing, such as demonstrating their own practice.
* 12 Strategies for Encouraging Students to Want to Revise Their Writing
Four educators share suggestions for creating the classroom conditions in which students want to make revisions to their writing.
Nine educators share instructional strategies they use to teach poetry, including through read-alouds and through studying and writing odes.
Four educators share multiple ways to teach poetry, including by modeling and by mimic writing, so that students can enjoy and appreciate the literary form.
Five teachers share strategies for teaching poetry, including by using a 鈥淧oem of the Week鈥� to promote social justice and by using photos to prompt student engagement.
Shanna Peeples, Mary K. Tedrow, Amy Sandvold, and Laverne Bowers 鈥渨rap up鈥� this five-part series on students writing for 鈥渁uthentic audiences.鈥�
Rita Platt, Alexis Wiggins, Jenny Grant Rankin, Kristen Koppers, and Mara Lee Grayson share their ideas on how and why students can write for an audience other than the teacher.
Martha Sevetson Rush, Donna L. Shrum, Heather Wolpert-Gawron, Michael Fisher, Tamara Letter, and Keisha Rembert contribute their thoughts on authentic audiences for student writers.
Jayne Marlink, Cheryl Mizerny, Erin Starkey, Nicole Brown, Dawn Mitchell, and John Larmer share their suggestions on how to encourage students to write for 鈥渁uthentic audiences.鈥�
Katherine Schulten, Kelly Love, Tatiana Esteban, Kimiko Shibata, Alycia Owen, and Jennifer Orr offer suggestions on how students can write for an 鈥渁uthentic audience.鈥�
Keep it simple, keep it flexible, and keep the routine familiar are among the suggestions three educators give in assigning students work while distance learning.
Five educators recommend strategies for using reading instruction as a tool to improve students鈥� writing skills, including through the use of informal writing and sections of reading texts students can use as models for their writing.
Five educators share ideas on how reading instruction can help students become more effective writers, including through the use of mentor texts and through a guided step-by-step process.
Assigning students to write about what they are reading and asking them to compose in various formats are among the tips seven educators offer in their discussion of the role of writing in reading instruction.
Five experienced educators discuss how writing instruction can support the development of reading skills for students throughout K-12 and provide tips for doing that important work.
Martha Sevetson Rush, Andrew Miller, Melissa Miles, Donna L. Shrum, and Richard Byrne contribute their thoughts on writing in social studies classes.
Stan Pesick, Ben Alvord, Dawn Mitchell, Rachel Johnson, and Rebecca Testa-Ryan share their suggestions on integrating writing into social studies classes.
The final post in this series on student-writing feedback includes answers from Stacey Shubitz, Carol Pelletier Radford, Melanie Ward, Tasha Thomas, Dawn Mitchell, Jen Schwanke, and Donna L. Shrum. I also share comments from readers.
Regie Routman, Paul Solarz, David Hochheiser, Kathy T. Glass, Catherine Beck, and Keith McCarroll offer their wisdom on giving feedback to student writers.
Susan M. Brookhart, Ph.D., Cheryl Mizerny, Amy Benjamin, Kate Wolfe Maxlow, Karen Sanzo, Andrew Miller, David Campos, and Kathleen Fad share their commentaries on the best way to provide feedback on student writing.
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Anabel Gonzalez, Sarah Woodard, Kim Jaxon, Ralph Fletcher, Mary Beth Nicklaus, and Leah Wilson begin a four-part series on providing feedback on student writing.
Matthew Perini, David Campos, Kathleen Fad, Jocelyn A. Chadwick, and Diane Mora finish up a three-part series on writing frames.
Patty McGee, Jules Csillag, Sara Holbrook, Michael Salinger, and Kathy Glass share their ideas on instructional strategies for teaching writing.
Beth Rimer, Linda Denstaedt, Gretchen Bernabei, Nancy Boyles, Mary Shea, Nancy Roberts, and Eileen Depka contribute ideas on how to use writing frames and writing structures in the classroom.
Anne Vilen, Sheila Waggoner, ReLeah Cossett Lent, Jason Wirtz, Amy Benjamin, Jennifer L. Altieri, and Fred Ende contribute their suggestions on incorporating writing into science classes.
Mary K. Tedrow, Amy Roediger, Maria Grant, Diane Lapp,Ed.D., Mandi White, Tara Dale, and Becky Bone share their suggestions for how to integrate writing into science classes.
Lisa Eickholdt, Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski, Mary Ann Zehr, Nancy Frey, and Valentina Gonzalez share their commentaries on writing instruction.
Eugenia Mora-Flores, Julia G. Thompson, Karen Sher, Bret Gosselin, Vicky Giouroukakis, and Emily Geltz contribute their suggestions about writing instruction.
Tan Huynh, Lynell Powell, Rebecca Alber, Cheryl Mizerny, Mitchell Nobis, and Kai Marks write about mistakes made in writing instruction.
We finish up this series on teaching writing with responses from Alan Sitomer, Sean Ruday, Jen Schwanke, Heather Wolpert-Gawron, Kathy Glass, Meghan Everette, and Brian Kissel.
Linda Dacey, Sandy Atkins, Andrea Clark, Mike Flynn, ReLeah Cossett Lent, and Shannon Jones share their ideas on how to incorporate writing into math instruction.
This piece features commentaries from Amy Benjamin, Alice Mercer, and many readers.
Heather Wolpert-Gawron, Kathy Glass, and Carol Jago share their ideas.
This post shares commentaries from educators Mary Tedrow, Ray Salazar, and Tanya Baker.
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Author/educators Penny Kittle and Carol Jago contribute their responses.
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This post includes pieces from Jim Burke and David B. Cohen, as well as comments from readers.
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Several educator/authors鈥擬arilee Sprenger, Jane Hill and Kirsten Miller, and Maria Gonzalez鈥攑rovide guest responses.
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This post shares guest responses from three educators: Mary Tedrow, Doug Fisher, and Nancy Frey.
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Three educators鈥擜imee Buckner, Carolyn Coman, and Tanya Baker鈥攃ontribute their ideas here.
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Educator and author Ralph Fletcher shares his ideas on how we can specifically help boys become stronger writers.
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Author and teacher Barry Lane provides his perspective in this post.
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Teachers Renee Moore and Ray Salazar share their contributions, and I add in my suggestions.
