Keys to Focus Student Writing with Martin Brandt (pt.1)

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Martin Brandt about effective writing instruction and his book 'Between the Commas'.

Hello everyone! I hope you are ready for some AMAZING content today, because I have brought on one of my favorite educators in the literacy space, Martin Brandt , to discuss his book Between the Commas , and how to use writing instruction that WORKS! In this talk, we discuss: That writing is more than just responses to questions and essays How to achieve sentence focus The power of writing instruction that frees students from artificial constraints …and much more! For this episode, I just wanted a pure talk about teaching writing. And that's what it is! Enjoy! NOTE: This episode originally appeared as #158 of the podcast.

People in this episode

Host: Teach Me, Teacher

Guest: Martin Brandt

Topics covered

• writing instruction
• student writing
• literacy education
• sentence focus
• teaching strategies

Keywords

• writing
• education
• literacy
• student focus
• teaching writing

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Between the Commas

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