Volume 1, Edition 34 – Helping Students Write with Voice

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching students to write with voice.

“Voice” can be one of the most difficult writing concepts to teach, and one that students struggle the most to understand. In an article for The Reading Teacher, reading expert Timothy Rasinski and a classroom teacher discuss a strategy of having students create Reader’s Theater scripts out of books they read to have them experience voice in a new way.

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