Teaching Writing
A Cure for Writer’s Block: Writing for Real Audiences
Excerpt
What if part of every student’s curricular year included real-life, change-your-world writing? What if every teacher guided students to find the right focus for the right audience? What if they actually expected responses as a result of their writing? The possibilities are endless…Students writing for real audiences are motivated in a way that students churning out papers for grades are not.
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The Write Time with Author Ellen Oh and Educator Melissa Thom
Ellen Oh is an award-winning author of numerous middle grade and young adult books including The Spirit Hunters series and Prophecy trilogy, and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Melissa Thom is a teacher librarian at Bristow Middle School in Connecticut with 22 years of educational experience and former president of the Connecticut Association of School Librarians.
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