Getting Students to Write- Helping Elementary and Middle School teachers improve student writing.
by Melissa Morrison, Elementary, Middle School Writing Consultant, Literacy Coach
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A Thank You to Listeners
A Thank You to Listeners
About this podcast
Are you a K-8 Elementary or Middle School ELA teacher wondering how to get your students to write? This podcast is for teachers looking for a way to revamp and transform their writing time! You don't need daily lesson plans or prompts-you just need to understand what writers need!
In this inspiring podcast, you will hear about the struggles, pitfalls, practices, and joy of teaching writing in a student-centered (workshop) model. Melissa guides you through the journey away from a more traditional, product-based writing time to a much more authentic, progress-based way of teaching writing.
In each episode, you will gain insight into a student-centered model for writing instruction and receive bite-sized strategies that are able to be implemented right away.
If you would like to feel more confident in teaching writing AND see your writers flourish, just press play!
Let's begin your writing TRANSFORMATION!
Melissa's Website: www.teaching-to-transform.com
Episodes
The newest 20 of 148 episodes
- A Thank You to Listeners · 3 min · Season 3 Episode 148This is my last "episode" of Getting Students to Write. I have thoroughly enjoyed the last few years of recording this podcast. Being able to share ideas with fellow educators as…
- Handwriting as a Main Character with Holly Britton · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 147All teachers have had students who struggle with handwriting, regardless of their grade level. What we learn in this episode is that this is not just a problem of messiness, but…
- Replay! Ep 97 Little Things Make a Huge Difference · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 146Implementing effective writing instruction is a big task. There are many moving parts and lots of important young writers to take care of! Struggling writers? Struggling teacher?…
- Two Things Can Be True: An Interview with Leah Mermelstein · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 145"Two seemingly paradoxical things can be true at the same time...and that tension, we are never going to resolve that." In this episode, Leah Mermelstein helps us sort through…
- Replay: Am I Over Scaffolding My Writers? · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 144Episode Replay of one of my favorites! You want to help your writers, but often the more help you provide, the more you inhibit their learning. This can happen even more so with…
- A Passion for Writing! An interview with Ana Siqueira · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 143What a fantastic discussion with a fantastic educator and writer, Ms. Ana Siqueira. Ana shares her journey of being an author and what is most important to her as a writer AND…
- Replay! Episode 60 What You Say Matters: The Language of Writing Instruction · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 142This episode holds the key to transforming your writing instruction from WRITING-focused to WRITER- focused! This is how we truly grow our elementary and middle school writers!…
- More Freedom Equals Real Writers: Interview with Ralph Fletcher Pt 2 · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 141The second half of my conversation with Ralph Fletcher is full of takeaways for every teacher of writing! If you have writers struggling to write or to grow as writers, Ralph…
- What Writers Need: Interview with Ralph Fletcher Pt 1 · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 140"The best teaching comes when we teach at the point of our own learning."-Ralph Fletcher The one and only author and writing expert Ralph Fletcher joins us in this episode to…
- Independent Writing Series: Observe, Assess, Decide · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 139When starting to implement Independent Writing in your classroom for the first time, it is important to know what is really happening with your writers as a class as well as…
- Independent Writing Series: Combating Common Obstacles · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 138In almost every classroom where independent writing time is implemented for the first time, the same few issues seem to occur with a few writers. This episode tackles what to do…
- Exploring "The Writing Rope" with Pat Pollack · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 137Listen in to a thought-provoking discussion with literacy consultant extraordinaire, Pat Pollock. Pat shares a multitude of thoughts and ideas about teaching writing effectively…
- Independent Writing Series: Anchor Lessons · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 136The Independent Writing Series continues with lessons that will support all writers in this beginning phase. In this episode, Melissa shares a variety of lessons for all grade…
- Honoring Joy, Skill and Purpose in Writing with Kate and Maggie Roberts Pt 2 · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 135Part 2 shares valuable advice for teachers who lack a robust curriculum for writing instruction as well as Maggie Robert's new book (with co-author Melanie Meehan)! Kate and…
- Honoring Joy, Skill and Purpose in Writing with Kate and Maggie Roberts Pt 1 · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 134You just can't miss this episode with the amazing authors, consultants and passionate educators Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts! We discuss the biggest needs of the young…
- Replay! Ep 102 Help! I Don't Know What to Teach Them! · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 102When I first began using the workshop model, I felt very unequipped to help my writers. I wasn't a writer myself and certainly had not had any training in writing or how to teach…
- Independent Writing Series: Just Get Started! · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 133This series is all about Independent Writing: The why, the what and the how! It can seem overwhelming and almost impossible to allow students to write on their own, but you can…
- Episode 132 Time Stealers turned Time SAVERS · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 132I know there is not enough time for writing instruction. That means we need writing time to be as efficient as possible! This episode shares my top tips for making writing time…
- Episode 131 Writing Together, Growing Together with Authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 131Listen in to another fantastic conversation with authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters. Both share their experiences and strategies for making writing an effective an enjoyable…
- Episode 130 Struggling Writer Should Not Equal Limiting the Writer · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 130It often seems that with writing, the first instinct for teachers when seeing a writer have difficulty is to hold them to what they are able to do correctly-to limit them to what…
