Endeavors in Teaching Writing by Joanne Stiles

Directions

stilesjm — 2025-10-20 11:08:06 UTC

For today's class you read three documents. For this task, share an excerpt or line from two of the readings. Create a SEPARATE post for each excerpt or quote.

When directed, you will respond to two peers.

NCTE Position - JP

2025-10-20 11:59:25 UTC

"Writing instruction focused on standardized tests fails to prepare a culturally diverse population of students for the college and career writing they’ll be asked to do and, more broadly, to cultivate diverse communities of capable, engaged writers who write for their own purposes."

teaching ms student to write well

2025-10-20 12:00:47 UTC

"Class lessons are often treated as separate wholes — with a particular focus introduced, practiced, discussed, and then put aside. Some teachers encourage students to make connections, but when classroom discussions are carefully controlled, the teacher predetermines the associations the students will make."

Teaching middle and high school students to read and write well

dutrows206 — 2025-10-20 12:01:40 UTC

e. Students engage in the kind of teamwork that is now so highly prized in business and industry. They bring their personal, cultural, and academic knowledge to these interactions, in which they play the multiple roles of learners, teachers, and inquirers and have opportunities to consider issues from multiple perspectives. Minds bump against minds as students interact as both problem-generators and problem-solvers. Teachers expect students not merely to work together, but also to sharpen their understandings with, against, and from one another.

Teaching the Writers Craft Penny Kittle

2025-10-20 12:01:42 UTC

"I ask students to find a passage of powerful writing... Students add these examples to our book graffiti board on the south wall of our classroom. We fill our room with beautifully crafted sentences, which we use for imitation or sentence study"

Teaching the Writer’s Craft - RK

2025-10-20 12:02:15 UTC

”I write in front of my students, demonstrating the decisions I make to clarify and tune sentences. I model the composition of essays, letters, and stories that matter to me, that I am deeply invested in crafting.”

NCTE position

dutrows206 — 2025-10-20 12:02:47 UTC

"Moreover, NCTE advocates for writing instruction that builds on students’ strengths, that values their many ways of using language, that promotes a broad view of what constitutes “text,” and that promotes young people’s voices and purposes for writing within authentic contexts. The recommendations that follow aim to help administrators and policymakers support quality writing instruction and cultivate authentic and culturally sustaining conceptions of writing in schools and beyond."

teaching the writers craft

2025-10-20 12:03:05 UTC

"Busy students and teachers often truncate the writing process. We push composing into homework, which students avoid. They procrastinate; we nag. They turn in a rushed draft, run it through spell check, and await a grade. The best teaching and learning are not rushed; they are thorough. Imagine a whole-school effort to greatly increase the volume of reading at every grade level and to teach students to hear the rhythm of language in what they read. Imagine teachers modeling the decisions we make as writers, inviting all students into a lifelong relationship with the power of language."

ML

2025-10-20 12:03:30 UTC

“Don’t ask students to write

only about Walden or the impact of

slavery on early America; let them

write about what captivates them. Ask

them to argue for changes they believe

in.” (Kittle, Pg. 4)

“They provide strategies not only for how to do the task but also how to think about it.” (Langer, Pg. 10)

Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well

2025-10-20 12:05:19 UTC

"Once students arrive at a level of expertise, teachers continue to provide an array of activities that provoke them to use what they have learned to think and learn more. In contrast, in the more typical schools, the learning activity and the thinking about it seem to stop when the desired response is given or when the assigned task is completed."

NCTE Position on Writing

2025-10-20 12:05:27 UTC

”When students cannot envision authentic purposes for writing or are not invited to make choices about their own writing, they can become disengaged in school-based writing.”

NCTE

2025-10-20 12:09:32 UTC

"When educators exclusively define "good" or "effective" writing and language use that matches white, Eurocentric norms, students are more likely to be perceived as possessing inherent deficits when writing and language does not match those norms."

Teaching the Writers Craft

robertgibbs635 — 2025-10-20 17:25:23 UTC

"It's time to stop scolding and start teaching"

Teaching students to read and write well

robertgibbs635 — 2025-10-20 17:29:32 UTC

"Integrated activities provide ways for students to put their understandings to use in the context of larger and more meaningful activities" pg 4.