Celebrating The National Day on Writing® with Texts from NCTE – Part 2!
The National Day on Writing® celebrates writing—and the many places, reasons, and ways we write each day—as an essential component of literacy. Since 2009, #WhyIWrite has encouraged thousands of people...
View ArticleCelebrating The National Day on Writing® with Texts from NCTE – Part 3!
The National Day on Writing® celebrates writing—and the many places, reasons, and ways we write each day—as an essential component of literacy. Since 2009, #WhyIWrite has encouraged thousands of people...
View ArticleDo You Plan to Write this Month?
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) happens every November — an exciting writing event where the challenge is to draft an entire novel in just 30 days. For that month, let imagination take over,...
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Empowering Student Vocabulary Knowledge
This post was written by NCTE members Mary Jo Fresch and David Harrison, authors of Empowering Students’ Knowledge of Vocabulary: Learning How Language Works, Grades 3-5. From the teacher’s...
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Connecting through Writing: A Collaborative Writing Project Inspired by the...
This post was written by NCTE member Carrie Conners and guest author Bethany Holmstrom. Over the last two years at LaGuardia Community College-CUNY, we have embarked upon campus-wide collaborative...
View ArticleThere’s No Need to Feel at Sea When It Comes to Teaching Grammar
This post was written by NCTE member Amy Benjamin. In the second edition of my book Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms (NCTE, 2021), I describe all kinds of ways to make grammar...
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Writing Hope
This post by NCTE member Nicole Sieben is reprinted from her article in The Council Chronicle (Dec 2017). Notebooks, mind maps, journals, pictures, books, paintings, a year-old packet of lifesavers,...
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From Finding Error to Finding Wonder: A Shift in Grammar Instruction
This post by NCTE member Eileen Shanahan is an exerpt from the article “From Finding Error to Finding Wonder: A Shift in Grammar Instruction” in Voices from the Middle (March 2021). Every year,...
View ArticleRecognizing the National Day on Writing, 2021
Writing is an important part of life. It helps us communicate and work with each other, supports our learning, and helps us remember. The National Day on Writing® celebrates writing—and the many...
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When the Teacher is Ready: An Anthology
This post was written by NCTE member Marci Vogel. To scribe to make hear the words, to make sound the words, the words, the words made flesh [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha] In the century before this one, I...
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