Tag: free-writing

• Teaching Writing: The Challenges

  

  This is the second post in a series responding to feedback from my mailing list members. I asked people about the highs and lows of teaching writing: what do we enjoy the most, and what are the issues or concerns. I’ve received hundreds of responses to the surveys, and have broken them down into three…

  Leon Furze

  April 29, 2023

  curriculum, Practical Writing Strategies, writing

  assessment-free writing, brainstorming, character exploration, classroom, collaborative storytelling, confidence, creativity, English teachers, found poetry, free-writing, journaling, mentor texts, modelling, secondary students, setting exploration, six-word stories, student confidence, student growth, Teaching strategies, Teaching Writing, voice, writing, writing activities, writing goals, writing improvement, writing instruction, writing process, writing prompts, writing skills, writing strategies, writing techniques

• Teaching Writing: The Joys of Writing

  

  This is the first post in a series responding to feedback from my mailing list members. I asked people about the highs and lows of teaching writing: what do we enjoy the most, and what are the issues or concerns. I’ve received hundreds of responses to the surveys, and have broken them down into three…

  Leon Furze

  April 6, 2023

  curriculum, Practical Writing Strategies, writing

  assessment-free writing, brainstorming, character exploration, classroom, collaborative storytelling, confidence, creativity, English teachers, found poetry, free-writing, journaling, mentor texts, modelling, secondary students, setting exploration, six-word stories, student confidence, student growth, Teaching strategies, Teaching Writing, voice, writing, writing activities, writing goals, writing improvement, writing instruction, writing process, writing prompts, writing skills, writing strategies, writing techniques