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How to Use Writing Prompts in Teaching Writing September 21, 2009

What is the Purpose of Your Writing Prompt? Have You Defined a Goal or Objective?
The most important thing about a writing prompt is for the teacher to have a purpose for the writing prompt. Many teachers don’t think a lot about what their purpose is when they put up a writing prompt.
The thought process usually [...]

Tips for Teaching Writing: Teaching Students to Write About the Extraordinary (and the Ordinary) September 19, 2009

Should You Teach Your Students to INVENT a Good Story, or to TELL a Good Story?
The truth is that there is very little difference between a personal narrative essay and a fiction story. After all, who doesn’t look at a fiction story and then look at the author and say, “Oh, I didn’t know…” And [...]