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In Nevada, our Northern Nevada Writing Project sponsors teacher inservice workshops that use the resources found here at WritingFix. These workshops are very popular among Nevada educators, and we know not everyone who uses WritingFix can attend our classes in person, so we've redesigned our web resources to be easily accessible to anyone interested in our workshops' topics.

This February, NNWP Consultant Rob Stone is once again offering his incredibly popular iPods Across the Curriculum workshop, where participants design lessons inspired by song lyrics and/or podcasts.

Also this February, NNWP Consultant Corbett Harrison will be offering a second run of a brand new class he introduced in the Fall: Persuasive Writing Across the Curriculum.

If either of these topics sound interesting, we hope you'll visit the pages we've built at WritingFix to celebrate these topics.

Publish your Students at WritingFix in 2009-2010! Help Us Celebrate Hard-Working Writers!

Meet Alex. His teacher--a member of our Writing Lesson of the Month Network--noticed we needed a sixth grade sample at our WritingFix lesson inspired by Juidth Viorst's picture book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. She helped Alex take his story through the entire writing process and contacted us at publish@writingfix.com. Alex is now a published poet at WritingFix, and his teacher received one of the NNWP's print publications for helping us celebrate this student's final draft on-line.

For the 2009-2010 school year, we want to double the number of student samples featured at WritingFix! Teachers who help us achieve this goal will receive classroom resources from the NNWP! At present, we have over 200 Nevada students published at WritingFix, and about 100 students from other U.S. states, Canada, Japan, and Australia. If you want to know specific lessons we are seeking samples for, be sure to join our Ning's Publish Student Writers Interest Group.

Why do we love student samples? 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 many 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.

We're building a community of teachers, learners, and writers at WritingFix. Join us this year by celebrating your hard-working students at this website.

Five Resources Writing Teachers should Explore Together!

Students must begin thinking about the writing traits very early on in their schooling. WritingFix's Traits and Primary Writers Resource Page shares innovative resources and lessons that do this.

Students must hear from real writers about the act of writing. Real writers offer better advice than scripted programs. WritingFix's Mentor Text of the Year Program celebrates advice from real writers.

Students will never learn what makes quality writing if they are not taught to authentically revise their own drafts. WritingFix's Revision Resource Page shares innovative lessons and resources that demonstrate true revision.

In school, we are required to teach many dry and formulaic types of writing: standard reports, hamburger paragraphs, constructed responses. We believe it is critically important to balance those types of writing assignments with instruction that focuses students on thinking poetically. Our Poetry Lesson Collection contains both large and small assigments that will foster and appeal to your students' poetic skills.

Writing is not a skill to be thought about exclusively during language arts instruction. We believe every curriculum and content area should be teaching some elements of writing that would help students think deeply about what they're learning. Our Writing Across the Curriculum Resource Page shares ideas and lessons that show what these writing lessons might look like.

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We charge no one to use this website. Never have. Never will. We believe free idea exchange is what teachers everywhere should be doing!

It does cost us to keep this website going. So...If you appreciate these online resources, we do ask that consider visiting the NNWP's Publications Page and purchasing one of their print guides. All proceeds from the sales of their guides completely fund the WritingFix website.

Below are our two most popular guides...well worth the money!

Six by Six: Thirty-Six Trait Lessons for the Primary Classroom

Going Deep with 6 Trait Language: a guide for teachers