In this section, you will find many instructional materials we've developed for our Writing Center teaching.
However, there are limitations to these materials. Assignments vary, and different instructors want different things from student writers. Therefore, the advice here may or may not apply to your writing situation.
Finally, handouts can give only a fraction of the customized guidance that an individual conference with a Writing Center instructor can provide. If you have questions about the information in our handouts, please make an appointment to see a Writing Center instructor.
Compare and Contrast Lesson using poems and song lyrics
Great idea for helping students write a narrative using checks
Great lesson ideas for teaching students how to summarize and take notes
Engaging lesson teaching students how to develop voice in their writing. Step by step lesson and revision ideas. Includes music and lyrics
Writing lesson using pictures books to teach summarizing
Writing model for all genres, great resource for showing students how to write a specific genre
Samples of MLA citation
Poem from Stephen Chbosky's book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
*** Great handouts defining how to write leveled questions.