Come learn with us about Teaching Writing in Small Groups at The Center for Literacy Development at Rutgers!
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💡Great ideas matter, but conventions help them land.
My latest blog explores how spelling, punctuation, and grammar support clarity and confidence in student writing—and how to teach them intentionally and efficiently.
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A helpful strategy during writing is teaching students to organize their informational pieces in parts.
💬 Share your favorite strategy from RSB 2.0 to help students notice how information is organized or structured in the comments below!
A helpful strategy during reading is asking students “How do you know?” It encourages them to look back at the text, name key details, and use evidence to support their thinking.
💬 Share a writing strategy you would use to help students elaborate or add more detail in their expository writing
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💭 Once readers can find a main idea, take it further—ask: What’s the author’s angle or perspective? Writers do the same by choosing their own slant on a topic.
Reading for stance → Writing with purpose.
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🧩 Reading and Writing Are Connected Through Text Structure
When readers notice how a text is structured, they uncover its main idea more easily. Writers use that same awareness to plan and organize their own work.
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💡Main idea in reading = focus in writing.
Teach readers to find key sentences that show what a text is mostly about—then have writers reread their drafts, highlight key sentences, & ask: “Do all my details connect back?”
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💡When reading and writing connect, everything clicks. The same thinking behind finding a main idea helps writers stay focused. This week I’ll share tips for teaching main idea through both. Grab The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 + The Writing Strategies Book to follow along!
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Writing shouldn’t be an afterthought. When we teach writing, not just assign it, we build stronger readers and thinkers.
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Great stories have layers. Some are easy to spot, others are waiting to be uncovered. In my latest post, I share how to teach students to move beyond plot and infer the deeper themes that make stories unforgettable.
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If you’re ready to dive deeper into how reading and writing can strengthen each other, revisit my blog post from May to explore four key author craft elements of expository writing.
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Words carry subtle shades of meaning that shape tone and mood. 🎨
📘 Use Teaching Reading Across the Day + The Writing Strategies Book to make word learning meaningful, connected, and creative.
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Help students study how authors convey authority—through tone, evidence, + structure—and apply those moves in their writing.
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Show students how authors use precise nouns to create clarity + imagery.
Then, guide them to try it in their own writing.
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Use mentor texts to make author craft visible. Help students study structure + detail in reading, then apply those insights in writing.
📘Teaching Reading Across the Day + The Writing Strategies Book.
Help students study how authors choose words for tone + precision.
Then, guide them to use those same strategies in their own writing.
📘 Teaching Reading Across the Day + The Writing Strategies Book.
Use guided inquiry lessons to connect reading + writing.
Students notice author craft + apply it in their own work.
📘 From Teaching Reading Across the Day + The Writing Strategies Book.
Reading and writing are reciprocal processes. 💡 When students read like writers + write like readers, they connect comprehension + composition. Stay tuned this month as I share practical ways to leverage this reciprocity in your classroom!
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