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Document and Share Process-Based Teaching and Learning
A group of elementary teachers from Bastrop, Texas embarked on a year-long journey of deep professional development to bring Connected Learning to their Writing Workshop classrooms.
Wishes for Trees
In this exploration, students find ways to make and share wishes/hopes/ideas to celebrate the earth and its future by making, sharing, and writing to trees.
Looking Closely: BUGS
In this exploration students get to explore bugs! We invite you to go on a bug hunt, create your own bug, and write a six-word bug story.
Looking for Change Using Seeds
This exploration offers the opportunity to focus on seeds and observe how plants grow.
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Kid Writing
A collection of manageable and fun ways to think about writing that draw on students' experiences while providing structured writing practice. Originally developed for parents and caregivers during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, these four cycles of instruction also work great for…
Looking All Around: Neighborhood Walk & Mapping
This exploration gives kids an opportunity to explore their world and chart their adventure through writing, drawing, and map-making.
Bug Orchestra: Prompts for Writing Outside
This resource is available to support place-based writing outside anytime of year and comes with related resources and age-level recommendations. Originally developed for Write Out (writeout.nwp.org).
Nature’s Toolbox: Prompts for Writing Outside Inspired by George Washington Carver
This resource is available to support place-based writing outside anytime of year and comes with related resources and age-level recommendations. Originally developed for Write Out (writeout.nwp.org).
Beyond Storytime: Sharing Works-in-Progress to Support Young Writers in Understanding Authors’ Craft
Listen to this conversation between children's book authors and illustrators Shanda McCloskey, K-Fai Steele, Mika Song, and Ana Aranda along with Texas educator and NWP teacher-leader Katie McKay.
Today’s Reasons Why We Need Students to Write for Authentic Audiences
Why students’ voices, interests, stories, and experiences should reach real readers and some ways to support this.
An After-School Video Club for Elementary Students
Chuck Jurich explains how an elementary after school video club of 20 students creates an average of a dozen short films every year through peer instruction. Here he lists the stages of production, shows an example of an AV-style student script, and links to the software used.
Motivating Boy Writers: A Multigenre Approach
Using tips from Roy Fletcher’s Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices, Jeremy Hyler finds his students more engaged in their three-week research assignment once he incorporates digital tools and uses a multi-genre approach. Here he highlights the most popular genres, gives examples of student…
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.