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Why Grammar Instruction Does Not Improve Student Writing: How to Teach...
Do you want to improve your students’ writing? Well, don’t teach grammar. I’m serious. Teaching grammar does not improve student writing. I will never forget the year that I devoted an unreasonable...
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Teaching Writing and Grammar: Writer’s Workshop, Spiraling Writing...
Teaching writing is easy, right? Just turn the page in the textbook or workbook. If only it were that simple! Most teachers think that teaching writing is hard, and if they don’t think that, then they...
View ArticleMy Nine-Sentence Blueprint for Teaching Writing
If you follow this nine-sentence blueprint, you will be the best writing teacher at your school. If you teach beginning writers or struggling writers and use Pattern Based Writing: Quick & Easy...
View ArticleWhy Teach Kids Beginning, Middle, and Ending in Writing
Beginning, middle, and ending is so important in teaching kids to write that I created an acronym for it: BME. Clearly, I’m not trying to be creative with that acronym. I just use the term so often...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Teaching ELLs, ESL, and ELA by Learning a Second Language
I learned and became fluent in a second language as an adult. Not only was I an adult, but I was a full-time teacher as well. I’m going to take you through my process of learning a language. As...
View ArticleBrilliant Resources for Teaching Writing: Complete Collection
Would you like to know how to teach writing more effectively? Would you like to be a better writing teacher? If you download and read the free teaching-writing resources found on this page, you will...
View ArticleHow to Use Your Time Wisely When Teaching Writing
Everything in teaching writing comes down to time. The most serious discussions on actually improving students’ writing (not just teaching writing) focus primarily on time. Furthermore, the...
View ArticleHow Teaching Writing is Like Teaching Basketball: Writing is a Skill
Writing is a skill. This means that teachers can teach an enormous amount of information about writing and still not improve their students’ writing. To be fair, informational knowledge about writing...
View ArticleThe Two Types of Narrators or Speakers in Writing
As a rule, I use the term narrator for narratives, and the term speaker for most other types of writing, especially academic writing. Although the narrator is always the speaker in a narrative, the...
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