Teaching Writing

(This page's organization is based on NWP resource page. See also NWP's resources for Teaching Writing):

"Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say."

Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write

• Assessment
• Auditory Literacy
• Copyright & Fair Use
• Diversity and Equity  & Linguistic Diversity
• Digital Writing
  
• Digital Literature  
  
• Mobile Technologies - "one-to-one computing"
• Technology Integration - Online Learning Tools -
  
• Digital Portfolios - Digital Media Competitions - LOcAl MN FilM FeSTs & ORgs  
• English Language Learners (ELL)
  
• Gender & Literacy: Boys ... Girls
• Genre
• Academic Writing
• Drama
• Essay (Five Paragraph Theme)
  
• Fiction
• Multigenre Writing
• Nonfiction
• Personal Writing -- Journals: Dan Eldon -- Ken Carbone - Lewis & Clarke - Anne Frank
• Persuasive Writing -- Rhetoric (Online & Off)
• Poetry
•  Grammar Usage & Standard English  
• Plagiarism
• Responding to Writing & Peer Feedback
• Research & Writing -- (research methods)
• Rural Education
• Special Needs
• Spoken Word and Hip Hop
• Student PUBLICATION opportunities
• Style and Rhetoric
• Urban Education
• Visual Literacy
• Developing Voice
• Writing across the Curriculum
• Writing and Literature
• Writing in the Community
• Writing Centers --  
• Writing Processes --  (graphic renderings)
• Getting Started: ( brainstorming -- writing prompts -- graphic organizers)
  
• Collaborative Writing
• Gathering & Organizing
• Prewriting ("Slice the Pie" activity --)
  
• Revision
• Publishing - (Digital Portfolios)
  
• Writing Prompts
• The Writing Life - resources blogs with daily prompts, inspiration, etc.
  
• Writers Notebook
• Writers Workshop

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• Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading –– A report released April, 2010, by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, that identifies instructional practices shown to be effective in improving students' reading and offers recommendations for implementing those practices in the classroom.
• Writing Next: Effective Strategies for Instruction of Writing for Adolescents (2006) - report from Alliance for Education