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 WritingFix: Homepage interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms Since 2001, the Northern Nevada Writing Project has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website, which aims to "fix" those teachers who don't believe that the teaching of writing can be fun. If you explore our website's pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared--and then posted here--during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP. The Nevada teachers who participate in these professional development opportunities discover ways to be passionate about teaching writing, and here we share the very best, hoping that our passion is contagious to the teachers across the globe who have discovered what we've proudly posted here. If you appreciate this website and its resources, let us know. Tell us what you like about it by e-mailing us (Webmaster@WritingFix.com), or visit the NNWP's website and consider purchasing one of our print resources for your classroom. Publish your Students at WritingFix in 2009-2010 At our Northern Nevada workshops and in-service classes, we talk about seven important elements that need to be present in the very best writing lessons. One of those seven elements--finished student samples that are thoughtfully discussed before, during, and after the writing process--can be found at most of the lessons we feature here at WritingFix. But we know we can always use more student samples, ones that represent all the grade levels of students we teach. If you use any of the lessons we've posted here at WritingFix, be sure to look at the lesson's student sample page. If you see a sample for your grade level, be sure to print it and use it before, during, and after your own students write. If you don't see a sample for your specific grade level, contact us at Publish@WritingFix.com. If you can help us obtain two or three samples from your own students that we can publish here for future teachers to use, we'll send you a free copy of one of the NNWP's print publications for your classroom. For information on how we safely publish students from around the globe here at WritingFix, click here. Our Favorite E-Mail this Month "Hello,I am a teacher in Phoneix, AZ; I teach 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade gifted students. I wanted to thank you and your staff for the wonderful writing resources you have at the Writingfix website. I have been using some of your lesson plan for the past couple of years, and have found them to be among my most successful lessons. I am now on summer vaction, and we spend the entire summer at our mountain cabin at Donner Lake, near Truckee, CA. I plan to spend some of my "free" time perusing your site for more ideas to incorporate into my program in the fall. Thanks again for providing such a worthwhile writing resource." (Ruth Sunda, Arizona teacher) |
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A Challenge from the Webmaster |
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Featured Resource for July 2009 |
As a writing teacher, I think the most important thing I do is write alongside my students, becoming an active member of our classroom writing community. I meet a lot of teacher who don't have time to do this, so I encourage them to do the next best thing: write during the summer or weekend, save your whole process, and find time to share so that your students see that you do write...even if it can't be during writers workshop.
At the Mr. Borilla Project blog, you can read both stories and poems written by teachers from around the globe about this topic. You can also post your own stories and poems. This summer, write, save your process, and publish! |
New to WritingFix? Admittedly, we feature too dang much at this website, and we know it's hard for new users to pinpoint the teaching resource that will benefit them the most. And so...we offer the following top twelve list. Below, in proper order, are the twelve most popular resource collections used by teachers who know how to navigate this website:
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We've recently added new resources to our Exit Tickets Across the Curriculum Page. Pretty good stuff too, if we do say so ourselves. In Northern Nevada during the past year, we had quite a few secondary schools who--inspired by current research--wanted to increase the amount of weekly writing done in every classroom. Not all secondary teachers consider themselves to be writing teachers, so this page was re-designed to help ALL teachers find a way to assign and assess useful writing in a way that seems "palette-able" to every teacher.
A quote from Bret Harrison, a contributor to our Exit Ticket Resource Page: "Exit tickets are one of the best teaching strategies I've ever seen for getting students to immediately focus on the essential core content of lessons. They are particularly effective because they are designed to not only require the student to concentrate on the essential elements of a lesson, but then the students communicate succinctly using organized writing strategies." Our Exit Ticket Homepage features four variations (two of them new) for assigning this type of writing. It also include several resources from using Exit Tickets in Primary Classrooms. Let us know what you think of the new resources! |
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This summer, I challenge you to do some writing that would be appropriate to share with your students next Fall. In addition to this website, I maintain a blog that I call "
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