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Tag Archives: Writing Instruction
To Grade Rough Drafts or Not to Grade Them: One Teacher’s Journey
To grade rough drafts or not to grade them: that is the question I’ve wrestled with recently in my English teaching. Writing takes so much time to assess, especially when teaching the writing process and requesting that students revise multiple … Continue reading →
The College, Career, and Community Writers Program in the Middle School
The middle school animal is a breed of its own. Those who work with students in lower or higher grades look at middle-schoolers and shudder. One can almost hear the audible ‘Ughhhh’ accompanying that shudder. Middle-schoolers revel in being loud, … Continue reading →
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Write With Them; Write For Them: The Power of Teacher-Created Mentor Texts
In the April 2014 edition of Educational Leadership, renowned reading and writing teacher Kelly Gallagher writes about the power of mentor texts and how teachers can use them to help students improve their writing. The article, entitled “Making the Most … Continue reading →
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From the College, Career, and Community Writers Program to the SAT Essay: A Simple Step
The nuanced claim, authorizing, illustrating, and borrowing: These are some of the moves used in argument writing as promoted by Joseph Harris in Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts, a foundational text of The College, Career, and Community Writers … Continue reading →
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A Visit with Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
On August 25, the Chippewa River Writing Project welcomed Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein — authors of They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing — to Central Michigan University. During the morning, they led a roundtable … Continue reading →