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Invitations for 2023

I was in a meeting yesterday with a wonderful future teacher who said that she worried that the rigor of college reading and writing about literature might suffocate what she loves most about English language arts: writing. Writing for expression. Writing to create. Writing for …

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Informational Writers Workshop

Informational Writers Workshop This writers workshop series focuses on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See other posts within this series such as personal narrative, short story, poetry, and more here. This post is about crafting informational texts. Informational texts can live in …

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Poetry Writers Workshop

Poetry Writers Workshop This writers workshop series includes tutorials on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See the entire series here: personal narrative, short story, poetry, informational, personal argument, research-based argument, interviewing, descriptive paragraph, and comic. This post is about writing poetry. A …

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Short Story Writers Workshop

Short Story Writers Workshop This writers workshop series focuses on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See all the tutorials here: personal narrative, poetry, informational, personal arguments, research-based arguments, interviews, comic, and descriptive paragraph. This post is about short story. A short story …

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Personal Narrative Writers Workshop

Personal Narrative Writers Workshop This is one of several posts on teaching writers a particular mode and genre. In this post, I focus on the personal narrative, specifically in prose. A personal narrative is a story, but it can take the form of a photo …

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Writing Pedagogy Multigenre Project

Writing Pedagogy Multigenre Project In my annual spring course, Teaching Secondary Writers, I offer preservice teachers an opportunity to research pedagogical content knowledge in writing through a study of education thought leaders. I invite students to draw on their education coursework to identify a thought …

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141 Ways to Play, Process, Stretch, Express, Disrupt Words and Form

The 141+ ways offered here are merely suggestions — not rules. In a writer’s world, a suggestion is an invitation to play with the idea, stretch into new ways of seeing the word and the world (Freire), express dormant emotions or silenced perspectives, and even disrupt standardized words, syntax, and form by inventing new words, fracturing expectations, and inventing forms.