National Poetry Month: Writing Poetry
Help students recognize the elements of a poem and explore different ways of writing poetry, and you’ll also enable the students to …
Advocate for New Voices
Student journalists need the First Amendment as much as their adult counterparts do, but they don’t 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 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 “Lights, Camera, Write: How Scene Writing Can Help Students Write in Multiple …
The Singular “They” — When Pronouns Get Personal
Here’s 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
 The following post by Shana Karnes is reprinted with permission from the Three Teachers Talk blog. I was reading a …
This Year’s National Day on Writing: Unstoppable
October 20 is ÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵ’s National Day on Writing. This year, we asked you to tell us why you write—and 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 …