Wiredinstructor's Writer's Bookshelf

Reading Practices as Revision Strategies: The Gossipy Reading Model
From the NWP: 'When a high school teacher adapts a reading strategy for revision, he stumbles upon the quintessential revision strategy: one that is both “good and good for you.” '

Working With Beginning Writers
From the NWP: "First grade teacher Alisa Daniel describes how students benefit from seeing  teachers write, including modeling all the different stages of the process."

The Writing Corner: The Writing Process
This school district site attempts to unify and clarify the process, modes, and forms of writing. Included is an excellent overview graphic of the Writing Process. You'll also find online and downloadable copies of information about Modes and Forms of Writing, Six Trait Scoring Guides, and a list of mode specific writing prompts.

The Writing Process in a Multimedia Environment
Multimedia environments have changed each of the stages of the writing process-- pre-writing, writing, re-writing, and post-writing. Writing is not a linear process but the focal point of many other processes. Writing can be facilitated by an environment that is non-linear and rich in connecting together many different abstractions and occurrences. This is where multimedia will aid this connected but diverse assembly of phenomena. A visual representation of the model using the Snake and Ladder board game depicts this connected and non-linear approach to the writing process in a multimedia environment.

Implementing the Writing Process
This award winning site by Canadian teacher Gloria Antifaiff, provides a rich set of resources to support every step of the writing process. Includes a detailed self evaluation rubric to help create a writer's workshop in your classroom.

It's Never Written in Stone
From NWP: "How can the beauty of revision be taught when it is such an agony for young writers? Learn how one teacher cajoles revisions from her elementary students."

Steps in the Research and Writing Process
This website is part of a larger site called Research and Argument: Tools for Teachers and Students. Students will learn that writing a research paper, like any other kind of writing, is not necessarily a linear process, with one step immediately following another. Materials relate the recursive nature of the writing process to research skills and writing.

The Writing Process
This deceptively simple site presented by the MIT Online Writing and Communication Center, presents all of the essentials of the writing process.

The Creative Writing Process
This site was created by Canadian teacher Alan Kirby. It contains practical tips, lesson suggestions, illustrations, and worksheets.

Everything I Know About Teaching Language Arts I Learned at the Office Supply Store
From NWP: "Middle-school teacher Kathleen O'Shaughnessy describes how in the chaotic world of the classroom, the tiny things matter, including Post-it® Notes. "