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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 Write More
Alma Ammons Hoffmann
Founder and Developer
Write More Education Resources
Alma has been an educator for over 20 years. With a BA in Elementary and Intermediate Education from UNC – Chapel Hill and a MA in Elementary Education and Reading K-12 from Meredith College, Alma started her teaching career. She began teaching fifth grade then moved onto 4th, 1st, 2nd, K and Chapter One Reading. In 1994, Alma became a certified Reading Recovery teacher. It was during the training for Reading Recovery that Alma realized the strong connection between reading and writing. Alma began working with fellow teachers learning and studying better methods for teaching writing. The more Alma worked with different teachers, the more she realized how hard writing was for teachers to teach. Most teachers never had a course in how to teach writing so they did not realize all the fun, effective ways to teach writing strategies.
In 1996, Alma wrote a teacher resource book called Writing Works. The purpose of this book was to give teachers a variety of fun, effective and integrated writing activities of varying lengths. The book has been reprinted many times and is still a top- selling book for Alma’s new company, Write More Education Resources. Today Write More is a company with many products designed to make writing easier and more integrated through curriculum. Alma still spends her time teaching children during track out and after school writing camps that she has developed. Alma also spends a lot of time conducting staff development workshops at schools modeling and teaching ways to integrate writing.
Alma’s other accreditations include being the Coordinator for Education in the Continuing Education Program at Meredith College. Additionally, she was the North Carolina Camp Invention Regional Coordinator from 1998- 2004, and is a current member of the International Reading Association, National Council of the Teachers of English and the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.
My Philosophy
Becoming an independent writer takes lots of practice. 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 strives to create products that help students learn writing strategies in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. Write More products guide and enable teachers to teach writing in many different ways - whole class modeling, small group activities, writer’s workshop 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
