The Perfect Paragraph
Let’s talk about the building blocks of writing. You need words. Yay, we knew that. Luckily for most teachers, students come to us...
MLA Format — How to Be Classy and Professional When Writing
This will be a quick read. I hope. Unless I ramble; I tend to do that. As an English teacher, I have a fondness for a perfectly formatted...
The Writing Goddess : Natalie Goldberg
If there is one book about writing — all kinds of writing — that you should read it’s Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writing Within...
English Teacher Pet Peeve #1 — Writing as Punishment
You know, teaching English is hard. We have to teach kids how to hone the craft of writing and how to sharpen the skills of reading. If...
Incorporating Writing into Reading — The Simple Beauty of Annotation
“How to Mark a Book” by Mortimer Adler. Mortimer Adler, in this simple essay “How to Mark a Book” turned me into a reader — through...
To Revise, Be a Bat or a Boat or a Plane.
What do all those seemingly-random nouns have in common? Radar. Kelly Gallagher — and some equally-great teachers here at school — use...
