Category: WRN General

  • Writing Across the Curriculum- 9 Best Practices

    Students are struggling more than ever with their writing capabilities, and this is troubling district and federal education leaders – along with just about everyone else. Should writing skills be taught across the curriculum? At the end of the proverbial, K-12 school day, why is student writing ability important? Whose responsibility is it to teach…

  • Online Writing Assessment – How To Generate Improvement

    Teachers can improve student writing by creating effective prompts, providing strategic feedback, and evaluating student essays efficiently.

  • How to Optimize In-Class Peer Editing to Help Improve Student Writing

    How to Optimize In-Class Peer Editing to Help Improve Student Writing

    Andy Block, Edtentive Media LLC Peer editing is a powerful teaching tool that teachers can use in their virtual and in-person classrooms to help students improve their writing. Generally, peer editing of students’ writing is a multi-part activity. First, the students produce a piece of writing. Then, the teacher guides them through the process of…

  • 7 Easy Tips for Saving Time Grading Papers for 5th-12th Grade Teachers

    Andy Block, Edtentive Media LLC Grading papers takes up so much unnecessary time that could be spent making a valuable impact on students or planning your next lesson. Wouldn’t you want to shorten the amount of time spent grading papers to spend more meaningful time with your students?  Time was scarce prior to the pandemic…

  • The Structure of Writing: Shapes Control the Flow of Traffic

    The Structure of Writing: Shapes Control the Flow of Traffic

    “Signs convey information to travelers not only by their messages and color, but through their shape as well. Special shapes are specifically assigned to certain types of signs so that travelers can recognize them quickly and react appropriately. In general, the greater number of sides on a sign, the more critical a message it conveys”…

  • Revisions for Student Writing: The Proverbial Egg

    Revisions for Student Writing: The Proverbial Egg

    In an earlier blog, we reviewed the chicken and egg dilemma: Which came first, with the argument presented that it was the chicken. Well, here’s the egg. Once feedback is provided, the obvious expectation is what to do with it. Presumably, students would take the feedback and make revisions. This model, often referred to as…