Resources

Helpful Links for Writing

 * 1) Busy [|Teachers Cafe] Explains Writers Workshop.
 * 2) [|K-5 Writing Workshop blog] Posts, links, lesson ideas.
 * 3) [|The Writer's Handbook] Defines terms. Developed by teachers in Gwinnett County Public Schools.
 * 4) [|Lucy Calkins Reading and Writing Project] Assessments, institutes, lessons.
 * 5) [|Great lesson plans] for Writers and Readers Workshop based on Calkins at Wachusett Public Schools.
 * 6) [|Like to Write] Created by me, Karen Haag. Lesson plans, explanations, definitions.
 * 7) [|Common Core writing bookmarks] Standards written on bookmarks for students to carry around.
 * 8) A great resource for [|creating rubrics] to help with assessment
 * 9) Great teacher site on [|getting started with Writing Workshop]
 * 10) [|Grading Tips] for Writing Workshop
 * 11) [|Writing Workshop in Kindergarten]
 * 12) [|NC Wise Owl]
 * 13) [|Building Writing Communities] in grades 3-5 (Great videos)
 * 14) [|Twelve Days of Summer] Blog devoted to thinking and talking about literacy in High School.
 * 15) [|E-Response] Reader response online


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">HELPFUL READS **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Writing has regained its place] by Timothy Shanahan. Added 5/14/13.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Writing in the Content Areas:] A free book provided by NC DPI for high school. Once again, I find writers are writers despite their grade level. Therefore, you will find many great writing lesson ideas in this book available online. It's written for high <span class="gm_ gm_a735609c-9b89-9d53-88ae-744a97ff8f16 gm-spell">schoolersbut I use the ideas with younger students. You can download it as a PDF.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing] The report of a study which coaches can quote to show which strategies work and which strategies work better. Might as well use strategies that work! Again, this report is a vision for middle and high school, but we need to start students on these roads in elementary school.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="gm_ gm_28406381-3472-3fbc-c2d9-46cc879d041b gm-spell">[|NACAE] (National Association of Comic Arts Educators) Seven handouts to help teachers integrate drawing and comics into their writing program.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|The Brain-Based Benefits of Writing for Math and Science Learning]<span class="gmw_">This blog by Judy Willis in Edutopia on 7/11/11 <span class="gm_ gm_a6da4bdc-9faa-3281-fa29-5da8c2ca3063 gm-spell">explains how writing can be used in math and science classes to reduce anxiety and improve understanding as well as boost memory.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Harvard Educational Review:]A recent meta-analysis from the Harvard Education Review has shown that writing about something they have read improves students' understanding of the text, as well as their reading fluency and word reading. To reach this conclusion, the authors reviewed findings from 92 studies on the topic. They focused on studies that had an experimental or quasi-experimental design; involved a treatment group that wrote about what they read, were taught to write, or increased how much they wrote; and included at least one reading measure that assessed the impact of the writing treatment or condition.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Writers Perform Poorly on NAEP Tests, 2012!] Why writing is so important to teach.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|If You Teach the 5-Paragraph Theme, Stop!] Addresses why teaching formulas, while making sense in the abstract, actually hurts developing students as writers. A must read.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Second Grade Writers] Lucy Calkins writes about the challenges faced by second graders and suggests ways to get them ready for the intermediate grades.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|The Reading-Writing Connection] with David Pearson
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Writing to Read:] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Reading-Writing Connection IRA briefing. At bottom of page download PDF of report.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Part of a New Curricula] Why writing instruction is so important.

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