Teacher's Curriculum Institute

So many teachers struggle to build student writing skills outside of the Language Arts.  Teachers in the content area can be uneasy about the time committment away from content as they do writing assignments.  It doesn’t have to be that way though.  One of my favorite lesson strategies is the Writing for Understanding lesson strategy.  In this [...]

Here are three great websites to use when having your students conduct writing assignments in the content area. http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp  This website is so simple it’s insane.  Let’s say you are going to have your students create a fictional article that might appear in a newspaper.  Students would use the writing process to draft and edit the [...]

We’re full of creative ideas for the Interactive Student Notebook this month. There are so many ways you can encourage students to take notes graphically and to process information. One of my favorite processing assignments is to have students write a eulogy. The eulogy could be for a person, like Susan B. Anthony or Abraham [...]