An Outline For How Students Can Learn To Write Essays Inductively
I’ve written a lot – both here and in my books – about teaching and...
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Category: writing
Guest Post: The Writing Recipe – How “Essay Framing for ELL” Creates Confidence Writers in ALL of Us!
Over the past few months, I’ve published several series of guest posts from teachers of...
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Guest Post: Increasing Student Confidence Through Black Belt Writing
Over the past few months, I’ve published several series of guest posts from teachers of...
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Guest Post: “Write Now: Everyday Strategies for ELLs”
Over the past few months, I’ve published several series of guest posts from teachers of...
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This Post From The NY Times Learning Network Is The Most Important Resource You’ll Find This Month
The New York Times Learning Network produces an incredible amount of useful resources. But...
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Have Students Write A Letter To Their Representative – & To The Pulitzer Center – In This Neat Contest
Local Letters for Global Change: A Pulitzer Center Writing Contest is the name of a letter-writing...
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Guest Post: How to Scaffold the RACE Writing Strategy for Newcomer English Learners
Over the past few months, I’ve published several series of guest posts from teachers of English...
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Write A Screenplay With “Dialogue”
Dialogue is an app that lets you write a screenplay on your phone and then automatically...
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Two “Writing Frames” For ELLs & Everybody Else
The Best Scaffolded Writing Frames For Students is a very popular “Best” list....
Read MoreFormatically Creates New Citation Tool That Might Be Easiest To Use
I don’t know about you, but I hate having to go through the process of formally creating citations, which is why I pay someone to clean-up my book manuscripts. I suspect many of my students feel the same, and there are...
Read MoreGreat Article On The Benefits Of Reading – With An Accompanying Writing Prompt!
I doubt that there is a better article on the benefits of reading than this new NBC News piece, Why ‘getting lost in a book’ is so good for you, according to science. It provides an excellent summary of research,...
Read MoreGoogle Docs To Get Turbo-Charged Grammar Checker
Google today announced that they would soon be adding a grammar-checker powered by “machine-learning.” I’ve embedded their demonstration GIF at the top of this post. Here’s their announcement:...
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