Quick question, Niepodam...

When was the last time you got explicit training on how to teach writing?

Not "write about your weekend."

Not journal time.

Actual, structured, this-is-how-writing-works instruction — from someone who has studied it for decades?

If you're drawing a blank, you're not alone.

Writing is the skill most schools assume will happen naturally once kids can read.

It won't.

And the research is pretty clear on this.

Writing doesn't develop on its own.

It has to be taught.

Explicitly.
Consistently.
Across every subject — not just during writing time.

Here's one thing you can try this week:

Give kids a sentence starter before you ask them to write anything.
That's it.

"Today I learned ___."
"I think ___ because ___."
"Something that surprised me was ___."

Sentence starters lower the barrier to entry for kids who freeze up the second they see a blank page.

They're especially powerful for your Pre-K and K students who have lots to say but don't know how to get it out.

Try it in one subject this week — science, read-aloud, morning meeting — and see what happens.

This is the kind of practical, research-backed strategy that's baked into everything inside the Science of Reading Formula.

Members get tools like this every single week — plus a community of Pre-K through 2nd grade teachers to figure it out with.

Enrollment is closed right now — but it opens in August.

If you want more of this, mark your calendar.

Xoxo,