Summer Growth for 2008:
WritingFix now features a Bibliography Page!
Librarians and teachers, check out our on-line WritingFix Bibliography. Does your school library carry all the "mentor texts" cited by WritingFix's free-to-use lessons and classroom writing prompts? If you're not sure, check out our new Bibliography Page, which lists all of our titles and authors on one page.
WritingFix now features an Author Studies Homepage!
Teachers, check out our newest WritingFix page that celebrates Author Studies. During your summer hiatus, develop a new unit using the featured authors on the left-hand side of the page....or brush up on new teaching techniques by finding a new book by one of WritingFix's five favorite authors who write about the teaching of writing.
WritingFix's Philosophy: Interactive Choices Inspire Writers
from Corbett Harrison, WritingFix's webmaster
We all appreciate choices in life. In the classrooms where I learned to write, often I had little or no choice when writing was assigned to me. "Write a report about this topic," "Make sure your essay addresses this theme," and "Follow this format when writing your paragraphs" were mandates I remember from school that stifled me as a writer.
When I became a teacher, I allowed my students to make choices when they selected topics and approaches for papers and assignments. I taught them writing skills, and they applied those skills to the topics that interested them. My classroom of writers thrived in my choice-based, workshop approach to the teaching of writing.
When creating this website for writers, students, and their teachers, I was determined to make choice the theme that made this resource-based website different. As you explore and use WritingFix's resources, watch for the choices each resource offers young writers.
A fine example of one of our interactive, choice-based writing prompts is below: the interactive plot creator, which was one of the first twenty prompts that began WritingFix in 2001.
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