Show the Way to Write: Modeling, Mentors, and Exemplars
It can be hard for kids to write. There’s a tremendous amount of mental energy involved with writing. It’s also very vulnerable. The writer’s thoughts, choices, and skill level…
Getting Kids to Write: Motivation
Teaching writing is at the top of many teachers’ lists of things that are hardest to do. The actual teaching of it can be uncomfortable for many, but a bigger…
The Missing Piece in SOR: Writing
In so many ways, the newest science of reading movement (SOR) is a really good thing. But as with so many things in education, we tend to go all in…
Want to See an Integrated Literacy Day?
I’m a big proponent of integrated literacy instruction. Why? Well for starters, it just makes good sense. It’s also very supported by research. And it helps make the reading-writing connection…
The Surprising Similarities Between SRSD and Writer’s Workshop
When it comes to approaches to writing instruction, there tends to be a lot of do this, not that tossed around. Often, the intent behind the approach is not new;…