Elevate Your Writing Instruction in Grades 5-12: Tips, Tricks, and Tech Tools
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Are you looking for new ways to improve your writing instruction in the classroom? Writing can be one of the toughest things to teach. Often the resources available to us don’t provide students with the guidance and the feedback they need to think of themselves as writers and as part of a writing community.
Students need more than endless writing assignments that don’t improve their writing skills, and they need grammar instruction that helps them draw connections between syntax and meaning. In this session, we’ll look at instructional methods and technology tools to bring your writing instruction up to the next level. We’ll talk about the various ways students can give each other constructive, authentic feedback. We’ll preview a few online tools that can make teaching the writing process and giving feedback less time-consuming. Finally, we’ll examine a new trend in grammar instruction that ties together both reading and writing so that students can apply what they learn right away.
Amy Cattapan, Ed.D.
