Hello LOL Readers! 

Did you know that October 21st is the NCTE's National Day on Writing? Celebrate with your students by giving them extra time to write in a genre of their choice and to share and celebrate their writing with others!

The link below features various authors talking about why they write. Share a few of these audio clips with your students and then have them compose and share (or record) their own "Why I Write" statements for the National Day on Writing!
 
http://www.ncte.org/dayonwriting/testimonials

Here are some of my favorite books for teaching and supporting the writing process, which are great to share and discuss on October 21st...or anytime throughout the year!

          
        



Please comment below to share how you plan to celebrate the National Day on Writing with your students!

What would you say?

One way I will be using this blog is to seek opinions and insights from other educators!

Today, a teacher came to me with an interesting question: What do you do when a student in your class completely plagiarizes the class shared story for his own independent writing piece and is not owning up to it in any way? Do you let it go, or bring it to his attention and require that he start a new piece?

I know how I answered this teacher's question but would love to hear how you would answer it! Respond with your thoughts!