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Tag: Teaching Essay Strategies
Essay Comment Excuses
Teachers know that detailed essay comments are keys to effective writing instruction but are adept at creating essay comment excuses to avoid the time and energy…
How to Write Effective Essay Comments
Teachers need to know how to distinguish among corrective, directive, and facilitative responses, the components of written discourse, and closing comments to provide instructive essay comments.
Computer-Graded Essays
Computer-gradingof student writing is being actively marketed to K-12 schools and universities. The NCTE and CCCC are adamantly against this trend. But, is there a middle…
Free Essay Resources and Lessons
Find relevant articles, free resources, and tips to teach essay strategies in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog. Let's spend more time on the process,…
Free Writing Style Resources
English-language arts teachers tend to argue about whether writing style is caught or taught. In my mind it's both. Find relevant articles, free resources, and writing…
Free Resources to Teach the Writing Process and Writer’s Workshop
Find relevant articles, free resources, and teaching tips regarding the Writing Process and Writers Workshop in this collection from the Pennington Publishing Blog. Learn how to…
Common Core State Writing Standards
The Common Core State Writing Standards have used a rather utilitarian approach to categorize essays into two classifications: argument and informational/explanatory writing. The approach used by…
20 Tips to Teach Writing through Music
Students have internalized the structure, syntax, and rules of music far more than that of any writing genre. This prior knowledge is simply too valuable for…