 WritingFix: For Teachers, Students & Writers
interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classroomsSince 2001, the Northern Nevada Writing Project has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website, which aims to "fix" those teachers who don't believe that the teaching of writing can be both fun and rewarding.
If you explore our website's pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared--and then posted here--during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP. The Nevada teachers who participate in these professional development opportunities discover ways to be passionate about teaching writing, and here we share the very best, hoping that our passion is contagious to the teachers across the globe who have discovered what we've proudly posted here.
If you appreciate this website and its resources, let us know. Tell us what you like about it by e-mailing us (Webmaster@WritingFix.com), or visit the NNWP's website and consider purchasing one of our print resources for your classroom.
Great Mentor Texts Inspire Great Student Writing! |
Yes, we have a lesson on that book!
Long before the movie came out, Nevada teacher Kaycee Goman wrote up a lesson inspired by this wonderful book.
Click here to access the lesson, which includes graphic organizers and student samples!
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WritingFix's Mentor Text Library 
WritingFix has a bibliography page that shares every mentor test we feature at WritingFix and gives direct access to the lessons that go with the texts. Click here to access our bibliography. |
Sadly...no lesson yet!
At all of the picture book workshops we host in Northern Nevada, not one teacher has proposed a writing lesson for the Maurice Sendak classic!
Teachers: Propose a lesson on this book using our picture book lesson template, and we'll send you an NNWP Classroom Resource if we publish it!
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December's Featured Teacher Workshop: The NNWP's Revision In-service
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  In Northern Nevada, the home of WritingFix, we are premiering a brand new inservice class this December: Mentor Texts that Teach Revision...A Lesson-Building Workshop. Twenty Nevada teachers are currently enrolled in this class, which we hope to make an annual offering. Each class participant will receive two wonderful resources as we explore voice and persuasion: The NNWP's Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide, and Barry Lane's Reviser's Toolbox.
At this workshop, participants will explore a variety of mentor text-inspired lessons that have been created specifically for this new course. Well-crafted writing, like that found in Jane Yolen's Owl Moon, will be analyzed and used in revision mini-lessons. Participants will each bring a well-crafted mentor text on the final night of class to propose their own mini-lesson. The best of these mini lessons will be posted at WritingFix's Revision Homepage. |
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Publish your Students at WritingFix in 2009-2010! Help Us Celebrate Hard-Working Writers! |
 Meet Jadie. Her teacher--a member of our Writing Lesson of the Month Network--noticed we needed a seventh grade sample at our WritingFix lesson inspired by Ben Harper's song, With My Own Two Hands. She helped Jadie take her poem through the entire writing process and contacted us at publish@writingfix.com. Jadie is now a published poet at WritingFix, and her teacher received one of the NNWP's print publications for helping us celebrate her student's final draft on-line.
For the 2009-2010 school year, we want to double the number of student samples featured at WritingFix! Teachers who help us achieve this goal will receive classroom resources from the NNWP! At present, we have over 200 Nevada students published at WritingFix, and about 100 students from other U.S. states, Canada, Japan, and Australia.
Why do we love student samples? At our Northern Nevada workshops and in-service classes, we talk about seven important elements that need to be present in the very best writing lessons. One of those seven elements--finished student samples that are thoughtfully discussed before, during, and after the writing process--can be found at many of the lessons we feature here at WritingFix. But we know we can always use more student samples, ones that represent all the grade levels of students we teach.
If you use any of the lessons we've posted here at WritingFix, be sure to look at the lesson's student sample page. If you see a sample for your grade level, be sure to print it and use it before, during, and after your own students write. If you don't see a sample for your specific grade level, contact us at Publish@WritingFix.com. If you can help us obtain two or three samples from your own students that we can publish here for future teachers to use, we'll send you a free copy of one of the NNWP's print publications for your classroom.
For information on how we safely publish students from around the globe here at WritingFix, click here.
We're building a community of teachers, learners, and writers at WritingFix. Join us this year by celebrating your hard-working students at this website. |
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Five Resources Writing Teachers should Explore Together! |
| When teachers talk together about lesson designs, assessment, and differentiating instruction, great learning happens...for both the teachers who talked and the students who learn from them. Too often in this profession, teachers remain isolated from each other. At WritingFix, we encourage teachers to explore our resource pages together. Below are links to five collections of resources that professional learning communities of teachers can easily explore together. |
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Students must begin thinking about the writing traits very early on in their schooling. WritingFix's Traits and Primary Writers Resource Page shares innovative resources and lessons that do this. |
Students must hear from real writers about the act of writing. Real writers offer better advice than scripted programs. WritingFix's Mentor Text of the Year Program celebrates advice from real writers. |
Students will never learn what makes quality writing if they are not taught to authentically revise their own drafts. WritingFix's Revision Resource Page shares innovative lessons and resources that demonstrate true revision. |
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In Nevada, we know exactly how our 5th, 8th, and 11th grade writers will be tested and assessed by the state, but way too many teachers think those students can wait until 5th, 8th, and 11th grade to begin preparing for those exams. Our Writing Test Resource Page is building a more practical approach to preparing our students authentically for their inevitable exam.
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Writing is not a skill to be thought about exclusively during language arts instruction. We believe every curriculum and content area should be teaching some elements of writing that would help students think deeply about what they're learning. Our Writing Across the Curriculum Resource Page shares ideas and lessons that show what these writing lessons might look like. |
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A Quality Writing Lesson... E-mailed Every Month!
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"Your lessons have given me a new spark to helping kids develop as writers in this world. It is thrilling to be thrilled again!" (C. Spieth, Oregon teacher) |
December's Writing Lesson of the Month
(Click the image or title to access this month's featured lesson)
December's Featured Lesson:
Short Adventure Stories |
WritingFix's Top 12
Here are quick links to the twelve most popular resources at the WritingFix website:
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Our For-Purchase Print Guides:
We charge no one to use this website. Never have. Never will. We believe free exchange is what teachers should do!
If you appreciate our online resources, we do ask that consider visiting the NNWP's Publications Page and purchasing one of their print guides. All proceeds from the sales of these guides completely funds the WritingFix website.
Below are our two most popular guides...well worth the money!
Six by Six: Thirty-Six Trait Lessons for the Primary Classroom
Going Deep with 6 Trait Language: a guide for teachers
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