Getting Students to Write- Helping Elementary and Middle School teachers improve student writing.

This episode holds the key to transforming your writing instruction from WRITING-focused to WRITER- focused!

This is how we truly grow our elementary and middle school writers!

What we say shows so mu…

School leaders, teachers and students are frustrated with writing, and I know why!

I find that getting teachers to see writing instruction in a new way to be extremely helpful.

One way I have accompli…

Are you feeling like you don't know where to go next with writing? Do you notice your elementary or middle school writers lacking progress? This episode is for you!

Whether or not you are utilizing a …

I just love the Question-and-Answer portion of workshops! This is when I truly know what the teachers need!

Today's episode will cover these two questions:

How can I support emergent writers?

After find…

This episode shares questions from teachers' exit tickets after attending my workshop "Unveiling the Artistry of Teaching Writing".

Today's questions are:

How can I instill motivation in writers?

How …

I know you will gain so much from this conversation from Mrs. Risa Woods, educator and ELL expert!

Risa provides high-impact teaching strategies and mindsets that are geared toward supporting multi-l…

I know you will gain so much from this conversation from Mrs. Risa Woods, educator and ELL expert!

Risa provides high-impact teaching strategies and mindsets that are geared toward supporting multi-l…

It is impossible to ignore the connection between reading and writing.

This episode delves into the ways that understanding that connection help to inform and enhance writing instruction.

Melissa sha…

Hey There Writing Teacher!

Have you asked these questions before?

'How much should my students be writing?' 'What should their writing look like?' 'What should I focus on?' How should I instruct this …

'Publish means public, not Perfect' and 'Value the Process, not the Product!'

These are the mantras I'd like you to take on when thinking about the editing and publish portion of the writing process f…

Why are we having our students revise? Sure, we want them to make their piece the best it can be! But, are we revising with a focus on the writer, or on the writing?

This episode will discuss two thou…

Drafting is so much more than we realize!

In this episode, Melissa shares the details of drafting by exploring all the purposes of this part of the writing process for our student writers as well as …

If our goal is to grow independent writers, then we need to guide them in effectively cycling through the writing process in order to create clear, detailed and organized pieces of writing.

Effective…

Students and teachers are struggling with learning and teaching writing skills, and it is time for a change.

But what do we consider writing? What is focused on and valued in our schools during writ…

Teaching writing is difficult, and there are so many aspects to consider.

My word of the year is Relationships, and since this idea was one that my special guest spoke about on the last episode, I th…

What another fabulous episode all about teaching writing with Jacob Chastain!

In this episode, we dig into a few sections of Mr. Chastain's book, Writefully Empowered, and he shares his thoughts on wr…

Calling all educators!

What a pleasure it was to speak with author, educator and podcast host Mr. Jacob Chastain.

Mr. Chastain's passion for students and for writing (and for student writers!) is clea…

There are several ideas of how to best teach writing. Some believe that the practice of having students write independently should not occur until a certain list of techniques is taught or modeled.

I…

There is oh so much to consider when teaching writing, am I right?

Today's episode speaks to a few specifics that have come up time and again when speaking to and working with teachers of writing, as …

I think writing teachers everywhere will connect to this episode!

We want to help our writers and we rely on our own assumptions to make choices and decisions for writing instruction.

But what if we a…