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- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Persuade Me in Five Slides! Creating Persuasive Digital Stories
After students write persuasive essays, use this lesson to challenge them to summarize their essays concisely by creating five-slide presentations. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
Students use picture books as framing texts for research, freeing them from the language of encyclopedia sources and allowing them to focus their attention on the content of their papers. - Classroom Resources | Grades 4 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Picture This: Using Instagram to Report
After taking a field trip that students document using mobile app Instagram, students become new reporters as they use the interactive Printing Press to tell about their experiences. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Polishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication
Students deepen and refine their understanding of prepositions by reading Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask. They write preposition poetry and create a study guide using an online tool. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
Postcard Creator
The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers. - Professional Development | Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Power Notes
The strategy examined in this Strategy Guide teaches students an outlining technique to help them differentiate between main ideas and details in their reading and writing. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Book
Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
Printing Press
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers. - Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Position Statement
Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
With full recognition that writing is an increasingly multifaceted activity, we offer several principles that should guide effective teaching practice. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
Profile Publisher
Students use the Profile Publisher to draft online social networking profiles, yearbook profiles, and newspaper or magazine profiles for themselves, other real or fictional characters.