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Elizabeth Brockman – English Journal, 2020
After ten years of public school teaching and countless student teaching observations, the author knows firsthand that English language arts (ELA) teachers are committed to teaching researched argumentative writing and, further, they often frame their assignments as questions. In this article, the author proposes that ELA teachers accelerate…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Prompting, Persuasive Discourse
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Sarah K. Gunning – English Journal, 2018
Writing and communication skills are important in all fields of employment. During the course of everyday life, people have to perform tasks they have never done before, or learn a technology they have never used. Most tasks are processes, and it takes some time to learn how they work. Instructions are the most common method of explaining how to…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Relevance (Education), Technical Writing, High School Students
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S. R. Toliver; Keith Miller – English Journal, 2019
When a student in a community-based writing program asked to write science fiction (SF), rather than a personal essay, he prompted the staff to expand the scope of the program's curriculum. This article describes how SF became another avenue for discussing community change. However, instead of just evaluating their worlds and writing about what…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Community Programs
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Lynne Dozier – English Journal, 2017
The author shows how using art helped a blind student in an AP class and students in Creative and Practical Writing classes improve writing proficiency and critical thinking.
Descriptors: Blindness, Advanced Placement Programs, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction
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Victoria Johnston Boecherer – English Journal, 2018
Thomas Nunnally equates five-paragraph format essays with square cucumbers found at farmer's markets: they have an established structure but no argument. The real square cucumbers are students who need a formula to write competently. By providing students with a real audience, a teacher can show that he or she takes students' desires -- and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Self Esteem, Writing Instruction, Essays
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Maya Pindyck – English Journal, 2017
The author was invited as a teaching artist into a first-grade classroom in New York City to teach a 14-session poetry residency culminating in an anthology of student writing. They began by sitting together on a carpet by the interactive whiteboard and read aloud several examples of "I wish" poems from Kenneth Koch's (1970) wonderful…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy, Literacy Education, Educational Theories
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Sunshine Sullivan; Tim Clarke – English Journal, 2017
Rural teachers are keenly aware that their learners come to school with varied personal and cultural resources. They are actively seeking critical social practices to support their students' movement across the personal and social boundaries that exist in their classrooms. Teacher educators want to create a sustainable change in professional…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Faculty Development, Workshops, Writing (Composition)
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Erin Donovan – English Journal, 2017
This article, based on a study in a sixth-grade middle school classroom in the rural southern United States, details a writing project that questions the nature of text and how text might positively affect students' perceptions as they become change agents for their communities.
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Grade 6, Middle Schools, Writing Assignments
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David Alan Smith – English Journal, 2015
This article examines the influence of context on student writing and discusses how the author used one methodology, problem-based learning, to foster more contextualized writing practice in ninth-grade English classes. Both research and practical experience suggest that students can benefit from writing practice contextualized within specific,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, English Instruction, Grade 9, Writing Instruction
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Kathleen Dudden Rowlands – English Journal, 2016
The author, who teaches the English Methods class in the credential program, knew from entries in students' Writer's Reader's Notebooks (Rief) that they were struggling with the articles assigned about a five-paragraph essay. Following a discussion of form-first instruction and CCSS assessments, this article provides concrete suggestions for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
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Larkin Weyand; Jon Balzotti; Derek L. Hansen – English Journal, 2019
Educational simulations provide students authentic contexts. These authentic contexts require situated and complex real-world arguments. Such writing scenarios help students recognize why there are often multiple interpretations of evidence, who their audience is, what they want, and what kind of genre is needed. Playable Case Studies help…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction
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Marisa Sandoval Lamb – English Journal, 2014
Like sports, school is a type of performance, and the process of learning and demonstrating knowledge requires mental skills that parallel those of an athlete, such as focus, analysis, memory, and confidence. Marisa Sandoval Lamb, an English teacher and competitive runner explains the parallels that exist between academic and athletic performance…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Athletics, English Teachers, Writing Improvement
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Darren Masserman – English Journal, 2015
This article argues that the goal of an educator is to help students realize they can be effective writers by giving them the ability to demonstrate their skills. Scene writing can make writing seem less like a chore and more like an opportunity to express ideas. As students write scenes that include both dialogue and action, they gain a deeper…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Language Arts, Writing (Composition), Dramatics
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Lisa Beckelhimer – English Journal, 2014
This article discusses how writing assignments focused on sports controversies provide students with opportunities to read, write, research, and debate in ways that feel authentic and meaningful. Athletes dominate the headlines about everything from dog fighting to domestic violence. Sports controversies are appropriate material for teaching…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Athletics, Writing Assignments, Rhetoric
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Amy Maupin – English Journal, 2016
The nonfiction letter offers students an opportunity to study a dying art while also gaining insights about people, places, and eras. Teaching students the value of letters teaches community, caring, and connection. Whereas reading great works of literature can and does provide insight into life's purpose and meaning, the nonfiction text of a…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Nonfiction, Language Arts, Self Concept
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