Top 10 Reasons to Attend Ignite to Write

Grades K-12, ML All Levels

Learn the essential lessons to teach writers at the beginning of the year to launch a daily writing time that blends instruction, practice, and feedback. Discover how to boost student engagement, tackle obstacles, and nurture independent writers with routines that keep the momentum going.

Grades PK-2, ML Levels 1-2

Learn how to effectively integrate writing standards into your literacy instruction alongside foundational skills. Discover a variety of curriculum resources and scheduling options to ensure that both transcription and genre writing are addressed daily.

Grades K-12, ML All Levels

Discover engaging techniques to introduce the 6 Traits to your students using mentor texts, song lyrics, and visual icons. By establishing a shared understanding of these essential elements at the beginning of the year, you can create a strong foundation for writing instruction that will benefit students throughout the year.

Grades K-12, ML All Levels

Strengthen students’ writing by providing feedback that is prompt, purposeful, precise, and personal. Discover ways to make your writer conferences more efficient and effective, and learn a 4-step process to offer targeted guidance, track progress, and foster meaningful teacher-student interactions.

Grades 3-12, ML Levels 3-5

Incorporate a single, kid-friendly 6-Traits rubric that adapts to any type of writing and grows with your students. Learn how to score for individual traits, assign value, and convert scores to grades using an online rubric calculator—complete with personalized feedback for each student.

Grades PK-2, ML Levels 1-2

Create a simplistic 6-Traits rubric that matches the wide range of developing writers in your primary classroom. Discover ways to co-create the rubric with students and guide them in using it to self-assess and improve their own pieces.

Grades K-12, ML All Levels

Foster resilience in all writers by providing mini-lessons that acknowledge the challenges of learning how to write. Encourage perseverance and independent decision-making through writing tasks that empower students to overcome obstacles and develop strong writer habits.

Grades K-12, ML All Levels

Streamline the steps of the traditional writing process to accommodate one-sitting first drafts. Explore a fresh perspective on peer- and self-revision techniques that better reflects today’s real-world writing situations.

K-12 Instructional Leaders, Coaches, Administrators

Explore key research findings from the science of writing to understand what developing writers need most. Learn five high-impact, evidence-based practices that build stronger, more confident writers. Then walk away with practical ideas to shape a research-based writing program aligned to standards and focused on student achievement.

Grades 2-12, ML Levels 3-5

Weave writing practices into math instruction to enhance critical thinking and analysis. Learn innovative mini-lessons that teach students how to demonstrate their understanding of mathematical concepts within informative and argumentative writing.

Grades K-6, ML Levels 1-5

Discover how to fit writing instruction into a robust elementary schedule, creating space for meaningful, focused practice. By doing so, learn how to develop both writing skills and content understanding, leading to stronger student outcomes.

Grades 2-12, ML Levels 3-5

Acquire a scaffold of 10 summary-writing techniques that work across literature and informational texts, and see them in action through authentic student examples from various grade levels and multiple content areas. Experience these strategies firsthand in this highly engaging session.

Grades 4-12, ML Levels 3-5

Help students extract key details, organize their thinking, and combine ideas from a variety of texts—skills that prepare them to write with depth. Then learn how to move them beyond highlighting and summarizing to produce cohesive, well-supported pieces that show true analysis and synthesis.

Grades 8-12, ML Levels 4-5

Explore the art of analyzing a text beyond simply identifying plot elements and literary devices. Learn how to guide students to interpret author intentions, including the purpose behind craft choices, literary techniques, and text structure.

Grades 3-12, ML Levels 3-5

Design test-like prompts in seconds using AI, including reading-response tasks that mirror state and national assessments. Then help students crack the code behind each prompt—decoding academic vocabulary and structure—to build writer confidence and increase writing scores.

Grades K-12, ML All Levels

Boost students’ written responses by deepening their thinking about texts. Learn a straightforward 5-step process that helps students make inferences, answer text-dependent questions, and support ideas with strong evidence—the essential first step toward stronger reading responses.

Grades 3-12, ML Levels 3-5

Discover the key components of effective short constructed responses, including inferential thinking and the use of textual evidence. Learn practical lesson ideas that cater to writers who will face state assessments, helping them develop the necessary writing skills to excel in this important format.

Grades 4-12, ML Levels 3-5

Learn strategies to turn text details into unique expressions—paraphrasing, citing, and restructuring sentences. Once students can handle the evidence, guide them to interpret, elaborate, and provide meaningful commentary that strengthens their writing.

Grades 3-12, ML Levels 3-5

Help students overcome evidence-based response errors with targeted strategies. Explore common pitfalls like insufficient support and irrelevant information, while learning to adapt to modern testing formats. Leave with lesson ideas to help students provide strong textual evidence across diverse question types.

Grades 3-12, ML Levels 3-5

Acquire a comprehensive list of reading and writing skills necessary for students to perform well on read-write tests. Learn to align composition and comprehension strategies across the year for seamless writing-about-reading instruction, building on the mini-unit spiral for a cohesive approach.