Language Arts - Revisiting the Teaching of Writing, Mar 1995

Looking at writing from the child’s point of view helps us see how we can avoid teaching practices that inadvertently make composing harder rather than easier.

In a continuation of an exchange begun by their previous LA article about a writers’ workshop in Peg’s elementary school classroom, the Sudols revisit Peg’s classroom in a different school.

By systematically reflecting on their writing instruction, teachers can make their classroom practice better, as this teacher-research project shows.

We need to remind ourselves of our successes in process writing—and of the continuing work we need to do to have quality writing instruction in our classrooms.

Persuasive writing is difficult to learn and teach in elementary schooly but this research gives us insight into how it can be done.

Sometimes we have deadlines that must be met Here is a way of helping students meet writing deadlines.