For Goal #2, I highly recommend John Warner's (https://substack.com/@biblioracle) books "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay" and "The Writer's Practice." These two books have drastically changed how I teach writing to my fifth-graders (and how I think about writing itself).
For Goal #2, I highly recommend John Warner's (https://substack.com/@biblioracle) books "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay" and "The Writer's Practice." These two books have drastically changed how I teach writing to my fifth-graders (and how I think about writing itself).