By Melissa Bryan How do we teach in a time of trauma? This has been one of the most meaningful questions I have ever come across as an educator—a conversation that keeps coming up in my PLN (Professional Learning Network) and department Zoom chats and group emails and amongst educator friends. Right now, it seems…
By Christy McDowell So many things in life work best in pairs, like peanut butter and jelly, socks and shoes, or bacon and eggs. Literacy is no different. One cannot write without reading. Therefore, as you’re reading to your child (even your teenagers!) there are a few things you can do to help develop their…
By Susanna Benko Introductory note: Shortly after COVID-19 shut down schools, I reached out to Writers Who Care with an idea of reflecting on supporting chidrens’ literacy practices when school was happening at a distance, in part because I was processing how I’d manage this in my own life. I’m writing this post about four…
Resources for working with all writers: This statement from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) includes descriptions of how families can support writers from early childhood through the school years. Here is one Kentucky school district’s list of tips for encouraging writing at home and helping with writing assignments from teachers. Schedule a…
By Sarah W. Beck In Richard Wilbur’s poem “The Writer,” the narrator describes his daughter at work at her desk, typing a story. Passing by her room he pauses, “hearing/from her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys/like a chain hauled over a gunwale.” The nautical metaphor continues as he thinks, “the stuff of her life…
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