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Writing
From handwriting to creative writing, learn more about ways to encourage kids' writing! An often overlooked topic area, writing can provide a means to enhance students' vocabulary, comprehension, and spelling skills.
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Our shows on PBS
Professional development webcasts
- Establishing an Effective Reading Program
- Make Reading Count: Effective Strategies for Teaching Comprehension
- Comprehension: Helping English Language Learners Grasp the Full Picture
- Teaching Writing
Interactive tools
Activities
From our strategy library
- Framed Paragraphs
- Paragraph Hamburger
- Persuasive Writing
- RAFT
- Story Sequence
- Transition Words
- See all writing strategies
In our blogs
Sound It Out
- Some words about words
- Travel journals AKA more dead guys in boxes
- Making writing fun
- Rethinking Literacy, a Common Core resource
- Putting reading and writing skills to work
- More...
Page by Page
The Common Core Classroom
- Summer, summer, summertime! How parents can support Common Core
- Creating avenues: helping below-level learners with the Common Core
- Grounded in evidence. Part 3: Constructed responses based on evidence
- Talk it up!
- More...
Connected: Digital Literacy for Generation Z
Top articles
Basics
- Differentiated Instruction for Writing
- Prevention and Intervention of Writing Difficulties for Students with Learning Disabilities
- Questions About Writing Instruction
For parents
- Effective Reading Interventions for Kids With Learning Disabilities
- Helping Young Children Develop Strong Writing Skills
For teachers
- Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers
- Information Book Read-Alouds as Models for Second-Grade Authors
- Pre-writing with Dr. Seuss
- A Student's Perspective on Writing
- The Basic Spelling Vocabulary List
Dysgraphia
- Understanding Dysgraphia
- Dysgraphia: More Than Just Bad Handwriting
- A Student's Perspective on Writing
Classroom strategies
- Integrating Writing and Mathematics
- Digital Storytelling: Extending the Potential for Struggling Writers
- Story Skeletons: Teaching Plot Structure with Picture Books
Download and print
- Share What You Discover! Publishing Your Work
- Recording Observations: Journals and Field Notes
- Handwriting: What's Normal, What's Not
- Developing Writing and Spelling at Home: Pre-K
- Developing Writing and Spelling at Home
- More...
FAQs
In our LearningStore
- Getting Ahead: Reading and Writing (K-3)
- Writing Better: Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities
- Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers
Research
- Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading
- What's In a name? Children's Name Writing and Literacy Acquisition
