Dear teachers, It’s a morning in January, and we’ve been committed to a writers' workshop for five months now. Fifth-grade students are confident in their role as authors and take their job of creating and sharing their voice very seriously. Our...
Zines—small, self-published booklets that combine writing, images, and design—offer a creative and accessible way for students to experiment with multimodal composition. This downloadable resource by Shawna Coppola introduces the history and purpose...
It is important for students to understand the power of writing. Writing is a form of communication, and it is everywhere. When you walk into my kindergarten classroom, you will see writing everywhere in a variety of ways. The displays, shelves, and...
Imaginative, engaging, captivating, exciting. These are all words to describe how I felt about writing growing up. As an elementary student, writing was my favorite school subject—a place to escape and be creative. Developing characters, writing...