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In Title I schools, administrators are faced with the challenge of developing a strong curriculum. This report illustrates the benefits of implementing proven methods to stimulate writing development skills and instilling a desire for writing. View our report.
Proven through research
Towson Universtity graduate students recently completed four separate studies on the use of Write More products in Baltimore inner-city elementary schools. Click here for the executive summaries or the full paper on each study.
About Us
Write More Education Resources began with a mission. Founder Alma Ammons Hoffmann was an experienced teacher with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education when she realized she needed to work on an important skill – teaching writing.
Instead of helping children improve their abilities, Alma did what many teachers do – assigned writing prompts and graded the results. It was through her work as a North Carolina reading recovery teacher that she realized she had to do much more.
Alma bought books on how to teach writing, attended conferences and workshops. Through her dedication, she discovered ways to help transform reluctant writers into eager ones. And she didn’t stop there. She made it her duty to pass on what she learned.
In 1996, Alma wrote "Writing Works," a resource book to give teachers fun and effective writing activities to use with their students. It sold "like crazy." She taught enrichment classes to teachers at her graduate school alma mater, Meredith College, and eventually oversaw all of the continuing education classes in that field. A company was born.
Today at Write More, Alma helps children find joy in writing through track-out, after school and summer camps and guides parents and teachers in helping kids succeed. She teaches workshops on how to help kids write well and have fun and sells products like writing portfolios, posters, organizers, rubrics and cool incentives like an author’s chair cowboy hat and plush pencil toy. Alma, who has been an educator for more than 20 years, knows what she's doing matters.
When she leads staff development workshops, Alma asks new teachers if they've ever had a course on how to teach writing. Maybe one or two hands will go up in the room. They thank her for teaching them simple ways to boost students' writing skills and integrate writing into their lessons. Parents praise Alma’s work too. They often say that after their children attend one of her camps their writing becomes stronger.
But Alma says a favorite part of what she does is watching the self esteem of kids bloom. She has students who enter the class cringing at the thought of writing and leave wanting to share what they’ve written. That's a dream come true.
"I try to make kids feel successful," says Alma, who has helped her own children turn writing trials into triumphs too. "When you think you can't write, you think you're not successful in anything."
Want to check out a list of Alma’s professional credentials? Read her resume.
Alma's Philosophy
Becoming an independent writer takes time. From learning how to organize thoughts and ideas into stories to choosing the exact word to express a feeling or emotion, writers need lots of practice to plan, organize, revise and rewrite. Write More creates products that help students learn writing strategies in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. Write More resources guide and enable teachers to teach writing in many different ways – whole class modeling, small group activities and one-on-one conferencing. The goal of Write More is to help teachers create confident, independent writers.
Read some of Alma's published writings
- Teaching Kids to Become "Crafters of Words"
- Homeschooling Writing Hints
- Getting Students to Like Writing
- Model, Model, Model Writing
- Writing Incentives
- Why Organize Story Ideas Before Writing
- Hands-On Activities Inspire Creative Writing
- Let's Put the Fun Back Into Writing
- Creating a Classroom Atmosphere For Writing
- Writing Rubrics Work to Make Students Independent
