This article explores the idea of authentic audiences and student publication for motivating student writers.

Using "Black and White" by David Macaulay, this lesson plan demonstrates the use of picture books as learning tools in middle school. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

Peer response helps students learn how to give constructive feedback to others, an important life skill. "Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer" visits the classrooms of three teachers-fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde, seventh-grade teacher...

This site offers lesson plans and activities to help teach middle and high school students to write scripts including character development activities, and script ideas.

In Workshop 3, we see two master teachers - Vivian Johnson, who teaches eighth grade in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Jack Wilde, a fifth-grade teacher from Hanover, New Hampshire - help their students develop as readers and writers of...

Use the resources in this collection to learn how a middle school teacher from West Virginia promoted reading, research, interviewing, writing and speaking skills as his students explored some tough issues. Students worked with a public...