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Category Archives: Paragraph writing
ONLINE LEARNING: How to Teach Writing with Zoom and Jamboard
Let’s say you’re teaching online with Zoom and you want to help students improve their writing. Let’s say you have 25 students—7th graders—who are reading Frederick Douglass’s 1845 memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, and … Continue reading
Posted in Demo Lesson, Evidence, Explanation, Instruction, Jamboard, ONLINE LEARNING, Paragraph writing, Resources, TLC Website Resources, Using Grammar to Improve Writing BOOK, Writing, Writing Feedback, Zoom
Tagged Evidence, Explanation, Jamboard, ONLINE LEARNING, Paragraph writing, Resources, TLC Website Resources, Using Grammar to Improve Writing BOOK, Writing, Zoom
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PARCC RST Prep: How to Connect Note-taking to Sentence Writing
Whether you are in the throes of “test prep season” or not, it’s important to teach students how to take effective notes (i.e., brief and suited to the question at hand) and turn those notes into sentences (then paragraphs and … Continue reading
Posted in ELA Common Core Standards, Instruction, Lesson-planning, Note-taking, Paragraph writing, PARCC, Research Writing, Test Prep, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Assessment(s), ELA Common Core Standards, Lesson-planning, Note-taking, Paragraph writing, PARCC, Research Writing, Test Prep, Writing
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My New Book, USING GRAMMAR TO IMPROVE WRITING, Is NOW AVAILABLE!
Dear friends, I am thrilled to inform you that my latest book, Using Grammar to Improve Writing: Recipes for Action, is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!!! To order a paperback or eBook, please click HERE. (Please note: The eBook is available … Continue reading
Posted in Analyzing the Common Core Standards, Curriculum, ELA Common Core Standards, Grammar, Instruction, Language Standards, Lesson-planning, Paragraph writing, Resources, Using Grammar to Improve Writing BOOK, Writing
Tagged Analyzing the Common Core Standards, Curriculum, ELA Common Core Standards, Language Standards, Lesson-planning, Paragraph writing, Professional Development, Resources, Using Grammar to Improve Writing BOOK, Writing
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An Argument for “Quote Lasagna”
Although I’ve been a longtime proponent of teaching “quote sandwiches” to help students write effective paragraphs (see HERE and most recently HERE), lately I’ve begun to notice that students who use this approach (context, quote/evidence, explanation) seem to overemphasize the … Continue reading
Posted in Argument, Context, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Open-ended Response Writing, Paragraph writing, Quote Lasagna, Quote Sandwiches, Writing
Tagged Argument, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Open-ended Response Writing, Paragraph writing, Quote Lasagna, Quote Sandwiches, Writing
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ANNOUNCING: New TLC “Argument vs Evidence” page!
I’ve just launched a new page on the TLC Website: “Argument vs Evidence“! This page curates my online resources for teaching students how to use “Argument vs. Evidence, Steps 1-6” to write more clearly. The TLC Blog posts explain the … Continue reading
Posted in Argument, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Literary Analysis Writing, Paragraph writing, Research Writing, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK, TLC Website Resources, Writing
Tagged Argument, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Literary Analysis Writing, Paragraph writing, Research Writing, The Literacy Cookbook BOOK, TLC Website Resources, Writing
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RECOMMENDED READING: The Writing Revolution by Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler
In 2012, if you read “The Writing Revolution,” Peg Tyre’s article in The Atlantic about Judith Hochman’s effective method for teaching writing, you may have wondered, Where can I learn more about this? You were not alone. In fact, so … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Differentiation, Lesson-planning, Paragraph writing, Questioning, Recommended Reading, Resources, Summarizing, Topic Sentences, Writing
Tagged Curriculum, Differentiation, Lesson-planning, Paragraph writing, Questioning, Recommended Reading, Resources, Summarizing, Thesis Statements, Topic Sentences, Writing
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Teaching Writers How to Select and Explain Evidence
[This post originally appeared in slightly different form on MiddleWeb on November 15, 2016.] The more time I spend in classrooms trying to help students write effectively, the more I recognize how detailed and nuanced this process is, especially when … Continue reading
Posted in Argument, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Paragraph writing, Research Writing, Resources, TLC Website Resources, Writing
Tagged Argument, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Paragraph writing, Research Writing, Resources, TLC Website Resources, Writing
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Essential Literacy Work Before You Begin Test Prep
Here are some things to work on before you begin preparing students for the genre of standardized testing this year: Review/teach The Comprehension Process using the TLC Comprehension Process Staircase here. You will need an anchor chart of this process … Continue reading
Posted in Argument, Assessment(s), Close Reading, Compare and Contrast, Comprehension, Evidence, Explanation, How vs. Why, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Literary Analysis Writing, Narrative Writing, Paragraph writing, Paraphrasing, PARCC, Research Writing, Resources, Skimming, Summarizing, Test Prep, TLC Website Resources, Topic Sentences, Writing
Tagged Annotation, Argument, Assessment(s), Close Reading, Comprehension, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, Literary Analysis Writing, Narrative Writing, Paraphrasing, PARCC, Research Writing, Resources, Summarizing, TLC Website Resources, Topic Sentences, Writing
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Nonfiction Writing: How to Build Quote Sandwiches
[This post originally appeared in slightly different form on MiddleWeb on October 3, 2016.] When writing nonfiction paragraphs or essays, students must frame their quotes (evidence) with appropriate context and explanation. In English teacher speak, we call this “building quote … Continue reading
Posted in Argument, Context, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, MiddleWeb, Nonfiction, Open-ended Response Writing, Paragraph writing, Quote Sandwiches, Resources, TLC Website Resources, Writing
Tagged Argument, Context, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Literacy and the Common Core BOOK, MIddleWeb, Nonfiction, Paragraph writing, Quote Sandwiches, Resources, TLC Website Resources, Writing
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How to Pace PARCC Writing Preparation
Regardless of how one might feel about the PARCC assessments, they are a reality many of us must confront. To this end, I have some suggestions for how to prepare students efficiently and effectively for the PARCC ELA writing tasks. … Continue reading
Posted in Argument, Assessment(s), Curriculum, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Genre, Lesson-planning, Literary Analysis Writing, MiddleWeb, Narrative Writing, Paragraph writing, PARCC, Research Writing, Resources, Skimming, Test Prep, Themes, TLC Website Resources, Unit-planning, Writing
Tagged Argument, Assessment(s), Close Reading, Curriculum, ELA Common Core Standards, Evidence, Explanation, Lesson-planning, Literary Analysis Writing, MIddleWeb, Narrative Writing, PARCC, Research Writing, Resources, Test Prep, TLC Website Resources, Unit-planning, Writing
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