Studying Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," students explore the intricate relationship between a poem's form and its content.

In this Writers Who Care blog post, Kara Douma shares how a K-W-L strategy for student learning can be deepened by thinking of how to activate meaningful reflection. Teachers may find this resource useful as they consider how to deepen reflective practices in their own classrooms.

Learn how to add details to make the setting of your stories come alive in this Story Pirates video from Camp TV. By using words to describe how a place looks, sounds, feels, smells, and even tastes you can make your writing more compelling.

Practice how to show, not tell, with similes in this Story Pirates video from Camp TV. Get ready to get creative and use your imagination!

In this English Journal article, Nicole Sieben offers secondary English teachers a series of research-based principles and implementation strategies for giving effective feedback to student writers.

This blog post talks about options for mentor texts and how to choose them. At the end of the post are links to other posts about mentor texts, how to curate them and how to use them in a variety of ways.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the first great Latin American poet, is still considered one of the most important literary figures of the American Hemisphere, and one of the first feminist writers. In the 1600s, she defended her right to be an intellectual, suggesting that women should be educated and educators and accusing men of being the cause of the very ills they blamed on women.

A fun way to get students to do research on one of the 50 states and make an Adobe Express Presentation to share with their peers.

Sherry and Justin from Story Pirates show you how to keep a reader on the edge of their seat in this clip about suspense in this video from Camp TV. They explain all the steps to make a story where the reader has to know what happens next and share their own mysterious and exciting examples.

This is a storytelling/writing lesson aimed for upper elementary students. They will create a digital story about a time in their life they got hurt. They will brainstorm, plan, and create their story. Then present the stories to the class. They will work collaboratively and on their own during the course of the lesson. This lesson is designed to take two one hour class sessions.Image credit: "Band Aid Flat Icon Vector.svg from Wikimedia Commons by Videoplasty.com, CC-BY-SA 4.0Standards: UT.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. UT.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3d - Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events. 

This style manual will quickly becomes a favorite resource. Whether planning a paper, running a grammar check, completing a report, composing an email, puzzling over a usage or grammar issue, or writing a resume or online portfolio, you are bound to find the material and examples you need in Style for Students Online. Drawing from his breadth of experience as a tutor, teacher, editor, and creative writer, Joe Schall provides technical writing advice that spans from the conceptual to the niggling. Thoughtful, practical, up-to-date, and rich in pith, Style for Students Online should be bookmarked as one of your oft-visited websites.

This source consists of an open textbook organized around making students successful writers. Topics include higher order concerns, such as the writing process and lower order concerns, such as advice on grammar and word choice.

¡Aprende cómo escribir un ensayo expositivo con opinión, razón y evidencia mientras creas tu propia tira cómica!

Con el superhéroe Capitán Opinión y sus compañeras Razón y Evidencia, el espectador se embarca en una divertida aventura en el mundo de las opiniones y la importancia de sustentarlas con muchas razones y evidencias.

Objetivo de Aprendizaje:
Hacer que los estudiantes escriban un ensayo expositivo que establezca una idea central en una oración temática; incluye oraciones de apoyo con hechos simples, detalles y explicaciones, y contiene una declaración final.

The Common Core State Standards are national standards that indicate what K-12 students are expected to learn in math and the English language arts. The standards themselves are lengthy and span K-12, but it's important for parents to understand the goals of the standards and ways to support school instruction at home.

In this English Journal article, Tchudi et al. share a revision strategy called “unsettling” and describe how they have used this strategy with writers in their classrooms to deepen writers’ experiences with revision.

Written by Bill Honig, this book offers educators great resources for teaching foundational literacy skills.

This What Works Clearinghouse practice guide presents three evidence-based recommendations for helping students in grades 6–12 develop effective writing skills. Each recommendation includes specific, actionable guidance for educators on implementing practices in their classrooms. The guide also summarizes and rates the evidence supporting each recommendation, describes examples to use in class, and offers the panel’s advice on how to overcome potential implementation obstacles. This guide is geared towards administrators and teachers in all disciplines who want to help improve their students’ writing.

In this English Journal article, Franklin shares strategies for teaching students how to engage with each other more meaningfully as peer respondents to writing.

As we’ve talked about in Paraphrasing Text Evidence (• How to Paraphrase Text Evidence , professional writers paraphrase more often than they directly quote. So, how do we decide when a direct quote is the best way to support an idea? In this video, Rebekah shares three times writers choose to use a direct quote instead of paraphrasing and gives two important tips for how to quote with sophistication like the pros.