楼凤天堂 Poetry Month: Writing Poetry
Help students聽recognize the elements of a poem and explore different ways of writing poetry, and you鈥檒l also enable the students聽to …
Advocate for New Voices
Student journalists need the First Amendment聽as much as their adult counterparts do, but they don鈥檛 always get the same protection. …
Writing Strategies for Action: The 2016 CCCC Annual Convention
The 2016 CCCC Annual Convention begins one month from today and runs from聽April 6-9, 2016 in Houston, Texas. The theme …
Promoting Global Citizenship in Daily Teaching
This post is the first in a series on “Action in Second Language Writing,” which will run up to the …
Fighting for Intellectual Freedom in the Field Two
At the 2015 Annual Convention, Katie Wright was one of two individuals, nominated by an affiliate and honored for her …
Screenwriting as an ELA Exercise
Our November 2015 English Journal offers the article 鈥淟ights, Camera, Write: How Scene Writing Can Help Students Write in Multiple …
The Singular “They” 鈥� When Pronouns Get Personal
Here鈥檚 a grammar grappler: Each student should keep ____ eyes on ____ own paper. his her his or her his/her …
The Importance of Narrative: Stories That Stay With Us
聽The following post by Shana Karnes is聽reprinted with permission from the Three Teachers Talk blog.聽 I was reading a …
This Year鈥檚 楼凤天堂 Day on Writing: Unstoppable
October 20 is 楼凤天堂鈥檚 楼凤天堂 Day on Writing. This year, we asked you to tell us why you write鈥攁nd you …
The Match That Starts the Fire
The following is by Alexandra Cavallo, who teaches English at Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, NJ. It is …