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This infographic explains how writing helps your memory, how your brain reacts when it hears a story, why clichés are forgettable and more. Via Jeff Domansky, Ivon Prefontaine, PhD, Vineta Erzen 
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A mother's story.
It’s a story about joy in learning, love of books, and a little girl’s passionate business idea. It all started one day when she came home really excited because she’d written a story in school. When she showed me the story, all I could say was ‘this is just the first chapter …”. She looked at me oddly in a goose-pimply way and answered ‘That’s exactly what my teacher said’. Then she said ‘I have something to do’ and ran off into her bedroom, only to reappear a couple of hours later, with a secretive look on her face.
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Foreign language teachers often lack sufficient understanding of the nature of dyslexia and the difficulties it causes in foreign language learning and are not familiar with the relevant teaching techniques and methods to further the language learning processes of dyslexic students. This site offers a collection of freely accessible self-study materials for EFL teachers working with dyslexic learners.
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Erin Klein: "This idea was inspired by my second grade students. I was surprised to hear that a lot of them shared their holiday memories with each other over Instagram. I had no idea that second graders were using this application. After all, I just started using it this past summer. I'm reading Dr. Dolittle for my read aloud, and we're working on character traits in reading workshop. I began to brainstorm ways to integrate both literacy elements ... "
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Though acronyms aren’t a new part of our language (the military has used them for years), the way we are using them in daily conversation with each other is a relatively new phenomenon. It’s safe to say that a new language has been born: text talk. This language is so widely used that it’s now infiltrating everyday life ...
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Kim Hoffman Kanof: "You know the feeling--that “gotta-get-this-grading-done” robotic trance. The blinding feeling of grading close to 180 essays. The guilt of balancing meaningful feedback without taking three weeks to do it.I have graded essays for years. I have tried all the tricks to get through my stacks of essays.
Google scripts and add-ons to Google Drive drastically changed my approach to giving writing feedback. ..."
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Writing is probably the most difficult area for learners to improve on by themselves. Writing demands an audience and if you have no-one to tell you how successful your efforts are - or not - then...
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Writing used to be strictly an in-school activity. Now, kids do 40 percent of their writing outside of school. Called “life writing,” young adults’ social writing spans texts, tweets, social media, and blogs -- and all of it’s making kids more literate. Via Nik Peachey
Dr Pam Hill's curator insight,
October 30, 2013 1:27 PM
"Life writing" should be given it's due. While it is often short and sweet, it should count as one part of literacy development. The English teacher in me what's to say it doesn't effect classroom writing assignments, but the techie within knows that any practice expressing your ideas to other counts. Learning both styles will produce a competent, educated person. 
16s3d's curator insight,
November 1, 2013 9:02 AM
Histoire de recadrer les pessismistes et passéistes: l'écriture est plus que jamais vivace! 
Catherine Byrd Bushby's curator insight,
June 21, 2014 10:13 PM
That's why we need to bring social writing into school.
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Most ELT teachers (hopefully) discourage students from the idea of only wanting to speak to the teacher. However, it strikes me that, in contrast, most writing is only read by one person – the teacher. ...
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First of all, blogging is writing, 21st century style, plain and simple. Blogging is a massive genre. It comes in many forms, addresses myriad topics, and can certainly range in quality ...
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Rules about when to use and not to use commas are legion. But certain errors keep popping up.
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Your brain on writing…
You activate many areas of your brain when you tell a story. There are so many areas in education where students can use stories to remember details of information needed for writing exam answers. Stories are visual, can be auditory; you can introduce smells and engage with whatever you are writing about.
The whole brain becomes stimulated with a person's own record of the information. How can you forget?
Go to www.hotmoodle.com for story writing information.