Links

= Research about writing instruction and student achievement =

The research in this report shows how writing helps students to improve in reading: [|Writing to read]

= Lucy Calkins talks to writers: = [|To all writers]

= Conferring with Students = [|Conferring] this wiki contains videos of reading/writing conferences, ideas for strengthening conferring, and apps that provide support for recording conference information.

= Mitch Albom on Writing (a must read): [|From a speech] = = = = A Slew of Writing Tips: = What writing flash fiction can teach us about how to write (and write anything): [|Learning how to write (again)] Famous authors on writing: [|Squido] Tips for writing narrative: [|LionHeartedPublishing] More tips: [|Daily Writing Tips], [|25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer], [|Creative Juice], [|Zeugma]

[|Maya on the writing life on Oprah] [|Oprah: How to Write, thoughts of Maya Angelou]
 * Oprah on Writing **

Here's an amazing site for anyone who teachers English/Language Arts (and writing, of course); it's the winner of the 2010 Edublog Award for the "best use of social networking": [|English Companion Ning]
 * English Teachers Companion **

This site is invaluable for smart suggestions for teaching literacy. [|Public Choice Literacy] Want to see Franki Sibberson's thoughts about mentor text? [|Anchor Books] Kelly Gallagher talks about his new book about using mentor text: [|Gallagher on apprenticeship]
 * Choice Literacy **

Storybook is a free (open source) novel-writing tool for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing books, novels or other written works.
 * Storybook **

// Storybook assists you in structuring your book // Store all information about your characters and locations in one place. Then, use the included Storybook features for managing chapters, scenes, characters and locations. A simple interface is provided to enable you to assign your defined characters and locations to each scene and to keep an overview of your work with user-friendly chart tools. Here's the link: [|Storybook]

A podcast by guru, Donald Graves, called Secrets of a Master Writer (Penny Kittle interviews Don): [|Donald Graves interview] Kylene Beers and Bob Probst interview Chris Crutcher: [|The Case Against Outlines] Penny Kittle and Tom Romano talk about teaching voice: [|Teaching Voice] Ruth Culham talks about the challenges of teaching writing and urges teachers to avoid canned writing programs: [|Ruth Culham at Scholastic] Class Acts from IRA is a series of podcasts about teaching reading and writing: [|Class Acts]
 * Podcasts **

Mark Overmeyer, author of When Writing Workshop Isn't Working: [|Mark's blog] Two Writing Teachers [|blog] Raising Readers and Writers [|Blog] Laura Benson's Open Book [|blog] Todd Finley's blog [|Todd Finley's blog] Corbett Harrison's plans for students to write during the summer: [|Corbett Harrison's Writers Notebook Project] This is about the most creative blog I've run into. Visit it if you want to learn more about 21st century literacy! [|Langwitches] Even though I prefer genre over mode, this blog has great links: [|Best writing sites NOT lit anal] William Zinsser's blog on what makes for good writing: [|The American Scholar] [|To Make a Prairie]: Vinton's blog that has GREAT ideas that range from teaching grammar to thinking about genre
 * Blogs **

[|Barry Lane's Discover Writing] [|Links for writers] [|Like to Write] [|NCTE's Gallery of Writing] [|Always Write] [|Kentucky's Teaching the Writer series] [|Teaching that Makes Sense] [|6+1 Traits] [|My Writers Workshop] [|NWP 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing] [|NWP's home page] [|Two Writing Teachers Homepage] [|What Kids Can Do] [|Teaching that Makes Sense]
 * Online sites about writing: **

Writing Stories is a book about exactly that: how to write stories. You can read the book online: [|Writing Stories]
 * From Stenhouse **

= Misc = Two masters, Kelly Gallagher and Tom Romano, talk about teacher as writer in order to teaching writing from the "inside":[|TeachingWritingFromInside] Want to read a short article about the research on best practices for teaching writing? [|Evidence Based Writing Practices]