In a new series, our columnist offers advice on using what you know about teaching to improve your public writing.

For example, when teaching how to write an argumentative ... I’ve asked them to write letters to people inside our school. Even more effective has been having students write letters to real ...

not just questions about phonemes and letters. They would do writing in the lesson. Phonics teaching would be part of the new approach to teaching, but balanced with all the other elements ...