Tag: writing
Sarah Jessica Parker and Zac Posen will help celebrate the 90th annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards!
By Lia on May 22nd, 2013
Students will celebrate their accomplishments at Carnegie Hall on May 31! 2013 marks the 90th anniversary of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program formore… full post
When Giants Unite: The CCSS meet the 4Ws of writing
By Alex on February 12th, 2013
Ruth Culham, author of the Traits Writing program, discusses how we can revolutionize the way we teach writing, and how these methods can effectively meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards.. The following is an excerpt taken from hermore… full post
Keyboarding or cursive? A Q/A with Francie Alexander
By Alex on January 31st, 2013
In response to the great comments we received on the “Is cursive something kids should learn?” post, we thought it would be fun to have Francie Alexander, Chief Academic Officer of Scholastic, stop by OOM to answer some cursive questions formore… full post
Is cursive something kids should learn?
By Alex on January 23rd, 2013
In honor of National Handwriting Day, I thought it would be interesting to explore a topic that has been popping up in the news lately—is cursive a necessary skill for students to learn? Just last week my coworkers and I got into a conversationmore… full post
Jeff Hirsch’s tips for NaNoWriMo
By Guest Blogger on November 15th, 2012
It’s November 15th and that means we’re exactly half way through NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, which kicked off November 1st. If you haven’t already begun your novel (it’s not too late to start!) or you’re having somemore… full post
Getting excited about writing: kids in action!
By Guest Blogger on October 19th, 2012
Back in June, the Scholastic Classroom Books Marketing team ran an online contest where we challenged teachers from grades K-8 to get their students excited about writing. The participating students submitted original stories accompanied withmore… full post
Writers on writing
By Morgan on October 15th, 2012
Last week, Scholastic hosted a webcast with J.K. Rowling (which, by the way, you can watch here.). Megan and I were watching the event — just like the thousands of classrooms around the world that were watching, too — and live-tweeting as fast asmore… full post
America’s Next Top Novelist?
By Dante on May 18th, 2012
All you need to do is flip through a couple magazines or click around a few Twitter feeds to know that we’re dominated by reality TV. What began with The Real World exploded with Survivor and now there isn’t an area of life or culture that hasn’tmore… full post
Jeff Hirsch talks NanoWriMo
By Guest Blogger on November 4th, 2011
Earlier this week Morgan told us about National Novel Writing Month (NanoWriMo), which encourages everyone to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days! A big challenge for sure. To help get the aspiring writers out there started on you journey, debut YAmore… full post
Thousands of writers; one intense month
By Morgan on November 1st, 2011
That noise you hear? It’s the sound of thousands of writers tapping millions of keys, scribbling pages of notes, and brewing billions of pots of coffee. It’s a cacophony of inspiration! Today kicks off National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo formore… full post
