The Middle School English Teacher’s Blueprint: 5 Biggest Mistakes English Teachers Make When Teaching Writing

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My name is Lisa Fyfe, and I have nearly two decades experience teaching writing in schools and with private clients as a tutor. I've studied writing instruction with some of the best thought leaders in this field. And I want to share everything I know with you so that you can experience:

  • Students who love to write and do it well.

  • Better classroom management because students respect your methods.

  • Happy parents and administration.

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Day 1: Mistake #1 Writing a curriculum that leaves out writing instruction because teachers aren’t sure exactly how to teach writing – and why this leaves students hanging “high and dry” in a world where being a good writer is a necessary skill.Day 2: Writing a curriculum that asks students to write a paragraph without teaching them how to write a sentence – and why students who are struggling to write sentences will never write great paragraphs.Day 3: Mistake #3 - Teaching writing in a vacuum –writing instruction that is embedded in the reading curriculum and connected to a “big truth” that is relevant to students is powerful instruction – and why this mistake leaves students with missed opportunities to develop their ideas through writing because they are less engaged in your lessons.Day 4: Mistake #4 – Instructing your students to make their sentence writing more “interesting” or “better,” without giving them explicit feedback —and why this leads to students who don’t have any real understanding of what constitutes good, clear, or interesting writing.Day 5. Mistake #5 – Writing a curriculum that doesn’t emphasize the most important phases of the writing process– planning and revising – and why this leads to students who believe that their writing is “fine” and are unwilling to change it into clear, accurate, interesting, or complex sentences because they don’t have the skills to do it.

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