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Steve Graham explains how teachers can cultivate a passion for writing and writing instruction.

Principals can help create a school culture for writing by providing curricular time, celebrating student writing through awards, and supporting school newspapers and literary clubs.

While at Brown University, Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney co-founded Eye to Eye, which started out as a public service project and is now a highly successful national mentoring movement that pairs kids who have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD with college and high school mentors who have been similarly diagnosed.

To maintain motivation and encourage positive emotional experiences with writing, wield the red pen with care.

Dr. Palacios discusses professional development for preschool programs that have new ELL populations, as well as the benefits of teacher mentoring.

Children’s literature expert Maria Salvadore discusses books for boys, finding books for struggling readers, and the power of poems.

Dr. Paul Rogers discusses the importance—and excitement—of an author visiting the classroom.

Students must be taught how to give positive peer feedback.

Teachers have enormous amounts of expertise that would be invaluable to researchers; bringing together these two groups is mutually beneficial.

Steve Graham lists some common characteristics of struggling writers.