Funded by a Teaching and Learning Development Grant, this first video examines ways to improve narrative writing and what its goals are. Many students do not fully understand how to write narratives ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Language Arts is a professional journal for elementary and middle school teachers and teacher educators. It provides a forum for ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. My “grittiest” composition students are simultaneously among the easiest and most difficult ...

In the 2007 movie “Freedom Writers,” Hilary Swank stands in front of a classroom of troubled high schoolers. They need to write down their stories, she tells them. Otherwise, when they die, “no one is ...

Princeton Professor Chang-rae Lee-- regarded as one of the most talented novelists of his generation -- painstakingly composes every sentence of his works, revising each one 10 or 20 times, not moving ...

Some fiction and memoir programs are a waste of classroom time. Others sharpen students' thinking and provide them with unmatched insight. Good teachers know the difference. "I'm not sure if ...

Yannick Thoraval is a member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Yannick Thoraval and Jill Parris also worked together on the project, Home Truths: An Anthology of Refugee and Migrant Writing.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is Andy Griffiths, and when it comes to authors, he's kind of a big deal. He's the author of more ...

For people going through a divorce, a technique called narrative expressive writing -- not just writing about their emotions, but creating a meaningful narrative of their experience -- may reduce the ...