Teaching Writing
Getting primary students started with writing is one challenge; keeping them engaged as they make the transition to research and report writing in later grades is another. How do you transform your classroom into a community of writers, regardless of grade level or student abilities? Check out our resources on such topics as writing workshop, mentor texts, conferring, revising and editing, spelling and grammar, craft lessons and boys’ writing.
Featured Titles
Talking, Drawing, Writing
Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe
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What Student Writing Teaches Us
Mark Overmeyer
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Improving Adolescent Writers (DVD)
Kelly Gallagher
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Practice with Purpose
Debbie Diller
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More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy
Janet Allen
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Craft Lessons
Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
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The author of Make Me a Story explains that it's quite easy for teachers and students to put together a digital story
Now Online: Make Me a Story
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Video Podcast: Jennifer Jacobson
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Authors in Action: A webcast with Georgia Heard & Jen McDonough
Watch Georgia and Jen discuss their new book A Place for Wonder
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Patrick Allen and Mark Overmeyer compare and contrast reading and writing conferences and offer suggestions for teachers who want to improve their conferring skills
Authors in Action: A webcast with Mark Overmeyer
Mark walks a group of teachers through a piece of student work to show how "reading to admire" leads to better assessment and stronger writers
Ralph Fletcher comments on boy writing
Read Ralph's comments about some classic boy writing submitted to Stenhouse from around the country
Product vs. process in the writing classroom
Mark Overmeyer talks about how to best help advanced students overcome writing challenges
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Three Stenhouse authors suggest ways to nurture confident, skillful writers
Article: Making editing useful for young adolescents
Jeff Anderson shares his 'express-lane edit' strategy that helps students become better editors -- and writers -- in all subject areas
Questions & Authors: How informal should writing get?
Liz Hale comments on the trend of the informal style of text messaging and e-mail seeping into students' schoolwork
Questions & Authors: Making time for writing
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Podcast: Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
The authors of Craft Lessons talk about the second edition of their book and how teachers use it to improve writing instruction in their classrooms
