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Writing Tip Teachers Can Agree On
If there is a pet peeve I have when grading student essays, it’s dealing with awkward sentences that are dotted with 10-dollar words. What’s worse, some of these thesaurus-loving students even use the...
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Neat Use of GoogleDocs in Writing Classes K-12
Yesterday I read a great post by Richard Byrne from his FreeTech blog. I loved his description of Brad Wilcox’s presentation at the recent Literacy Promise conference. To better inspire high school...
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Persuassive Writing Help: iCivics
I’m a huge fan of Sandra Day O’Connor’s iCivics website. Well, now they have a new feature called Drafting Board, that can help our 5th – 8th grade students harness their persuasive writing skills...
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New PBS Writing Resources
Every few weeks, PBS LearningMedia sends out a blast reminding teachers of their collection of media-rich resources. This week they are highlighting the “Power of the Pen.” Here is what they have to...
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NYT Releases 200 Prompts for Argumentative Writing
What issues do your students care the most about? What topics do they find themselves discussing most passionately, whether online, at the dinner table, in the classroom or with their friends? Later...
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Common Core Writing Exemplars
When meeting with 4th and 5th grade teachers regarding the PARCC last month, there was a great question about where one can find student exemplars. Although the PARCC has yet to archive student writing...
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301 Prompts for Argumentative Writing
New from the NYT Learning Blog 301 Prompts for Argumentative Writing : If anything ever published on The Learning Network could be said to have “gone viral,” it is last February’s “200 Prompts for...
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Check Out NoRedInk Online Grammar Tool
Today I was fortunate to have been invited to the EdSurge NJ Learning Summit in Atlantic City. There we met many innovate school districts and powerful technology companies that help with our craft of...
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High School Writing Prize: Art Analysis
I just received an email from the CollegeBoard announcing “that The Atlantic & College Board Writing Prize has returned for a second year. In last year’s contest, more than 3,000 high school...
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Robo-Essay Readers: Turnitin Vs. WriteLab
This Edsurge blog post compares two robo-essay readers: Turnitin Vs. WriteLab. Although I won’t reveal which is better, I am pretty sure we would agree (spoiler alert!) a human reader is always...
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