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FUN with Writing!

As writing teachers, we can get so bogged down with meeting the demands of standardized testing and drilling our students on analytical writing skills that we can lose sight of the fact that writing can be FUN!

Creative Writing, Writing WorkshopMeredith DobbsDecember 8, 2022creative writing, writing workshop, choice, promptsComment

Empower Student Writers with a 20% Time Choice Blogging Project

If you'd like to give your students some serious choice, and empower them to write about the topics that truly interest them, blogging just might be the thing for your classroom. Set aside one day a week for your 20% time project, and introduce students to the simple free blogging platform, Blogger.

Best Practices, Creative Writing, Distance LearningGuest UserDecember 16, 2017choice, blog, blogging, creative writingComment

Choice Reading (and Writing), An Interview with The Literary Maven

We all want our writers to be readers. Reading and writing go hand in hand. But how to hook our students on books? For some, reading is a chore, or something they manage to avoid with a little help from their friends.

Enter, Brynn Allison.