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Julie Wollman, Ph.D.
| Name | Julie Wollman, Ph.D. |
| Location | Worcester, Massachusetts |
| Role | Vice President for Academic Affairs |
| Membership |  |
"ReadWriteThink is an accessible Web site with high quality lessons and related resources that makes it easier for teachers and teacher educators to use and promote the latest in practice-tested, research-grounded approaches. The site helps teachers-both contributors and site-users-develop and grow as professionals."
Now Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State College, Julie Wollman has been an elementary school teacher and college professor of language arts and reading. As her ReadWriteThink lessons demonstrate, she is committed to engaging students of all ages in meaningful, purposeful writing across the curriculum. She believes that all writers need real audiences and that genuine feedback motivates writers to do their best work. A member of NCTE, she highly values the professional development and classroom-focused research that the organization makes possible.
Julie is the author of the NCTE book Family Message Journals: Teaching Writing through Family Involvement.
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
This lesson encourages children to explore authentic reasons for writing by writing messages to their family in a family message journal.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Launching Family Message Journals
This lesson introduces Family Message Journals—a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Persuasive Writing: What Can Writing in Family Message Journals Do for Students?
This lesson engages children in using writing to their families as a persuasive tool to get what they want and need.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks
Students read various poems and explore why lines are broken where they are and how they affect rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance in poetry.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
What’s the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare E-mail with Letter Writing
Students compare e-mails to traditional letters, identifying style and intended audience for each. They then write both an e-mail and a letter about the same topic.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Write Right Back: Recognizing Readers’ Needs and Expectations for E-mail Replies
Students who know how to compose and send simple e-mail messages learn to use the reply function with audience needs and expectations in mind.
Grades K – 5 | Professional Library | Book
Family Message Journals: Teaching Writing through Family Involvement
This book follows the development of emergent and beginning writers as they explore the power and joy of written communication.
