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Historical Fiction in English and Social Studies Classrooms: Is It a Natural Marriage?
What happens when history and ELA teachers form a study group to develop understandings of disciplinary literacy and ways this new knowledge might affect each person's practice? As members read and reflected together on historical fiction and nonfiction, they found that reading texts from…
Paradise Lost: Introducing Students to Climate Change Through Story
How does a teacher help students understand and care about global warming in a personal, meaningful way? Moving beyond policy and "big-picture" issues, high school teacher Brady Bennon focused on story. He asked his students to write about their own connections between place and identity,…
The Authenticity Spectrum: The Case of a Science Journalism Writing Project
The SciJourn project, in which students learn to write like science reporters, was initially designed to help students develop scientific literacy. However, it became much more -- a key to high school students' engagement as learners, researchers, and writers and their teachers' opportunity…
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.