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Volume 10 | Issue 14 | March 26, 2015
In texts, Snapchat, or even passed notes, students write to entertain, to inform, and to make arguments. Yet in school, many students struggle to articulate a reason for writing beyond getting a grade. Here, teachers use audience, the writing domains, choice, and community to engage students in authentic academic writing experiences.
Marlene Kimble
Learn how to turn your classroom into a publishing house, where all students have the tools and motivation to reach their intended audience.
Pooja Patel
Four different audiences offer this middle school teacher authentic options for framing writing assignments.
Eleanor Dougherty, author of the ASCD book Assignments Matter (2012), explains how students become better writers when given opportunities to write frequently, investigate structure, write from a prompt, deconstruct models of good writing, and read to build academic vocabulary and learn narrative technique.
Sean Hackney
A teacher shares his experiences applying collaborative response groups and blogging as vehicles for students to develop writing skills as a community of learners.
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