Are you a vocabulary teacher? Yes, you are! All teachers are vocabulary teachers, whether they know it or not. It’s so because the subject content and the content vocabulary are inherently linked. If teachers want to teach the content, they must also teach the content...
Since all students write across the curriculum, all teachers teach writing across the curriculum. The question is this: Are they getting results? Are they improving their students’ writing? To get results across the curriculum, teachers need to take charge of teaching...
Everything in teaching writing comes down to time. The most serious discussions on actually improving students’ writing (not just teaching writing) focus primarily on time. Furthermore, the teaching-writing research and philosophies also address how teachers should...
Would you like to know how to teach writing more effectively? Would you like to be a better writing teacher? If you download and read the free teaching-writing resources found on this page, you will definitely be the best writing teacher at your school! Of course, I’m...
The modern models on teaching writing (e.g., Six Traits, Writer’s Workshop, rubrics and checklists, Reading-Writing Connection, Writing Across the Curriculum, etc.) encourage teachers to take charge and take ownership of teaching writing. They promote this because...
Teaching writing across the curriculum is a skill. And so is creating effective writing prompts and assignments. To be highly effective in teaching writing across the curriculum, teachers need to be able to create writing prompts and assignments that teach two things:...
