Teach Writing With The New York Times: Our 2024-25 Curriculum
Our nine writing units are based on real-world features like reviews, photo essays, narratives, podcasts and more.
Unit 6: Writing for Podcasts
Join our live webinar on April 29 on Teaching Students How to Produce Their Own Podcasts. Welcome to our sixth writing unit of the school year. Below, you will find a detailed description of each element as well as ways to put them together to make your own custom unit. To learn more, visit our…
Our 4th Annual STEM Writing Contest
We invite students to choose an issue or question in science, technology, engineering, math or health, then write an engaging 500-word explanation. Contest Dates: Jan. 18 - Feb. 15, 2023.
176 Writing Prompts to Spark Discussion and Reflection
Each day of the school year we publish a Student Opinion question inviting students to share their own opinions and experiences in response to New York Times stories on the news of the day. To introduce each question, we provide an excerpt from a related Times article, interactive or video as well as a free…
Learning With: ‘From Clay Tablets to Smartphones: 5,000 Years of Writing’
6. The author writes: The slow abatement of handwriting today feels like the severing of a historical tie. It relates us to the Mesopotamians, to Chaucer, to that struggling Egyptian student. Finland, for instance, has dropped its handwriting requirements in schools in favor of typing lessons. In the United States, in 2010, Common Core standards…
Writing Comparative Essays: Making Connections to Illuminate Ideas
Notice how this student focuses. Instead of starting with a broad thesis like “We can see many parallels between the themes of ‘The Odyssey’ and our world today,” he looks only at how the Greek concept of xenia echoes today — and does so by examining just one article about Uganda. Below are the first…
Writing Prompt: How Scary Should Halloween Be?
Smiling jack-o’-lanterns and spooky ghosts are being upstaged by towering skeletons and dismembered bodies. Are you a fan of the trend toward bigger and scarier?
Unit 5: Argumentative Writing
Welcome to our fifth writing unit of the school year. Below you will find a detailed description of each element, which you can customize to make your own unit. To learn more, visit our writing curriculum overview.Unit OverviewRight now, the concept of “student voice” is having a moment. Thanks to the work of people like…
Do You Love Writing or Receiving Letters?
The first letter arrived dated March 31, 2020. It was from a close childhood friend, later turned college roommate, with whom I regularly keep in touch via instant texts, FaceTimes and phone calls, as most 20-somethings do.“The sun has set on our 15th day of quarantine/social distancing,” my friend wrote, his chicken scratch still familiar…
Andreas Loizou: “I took it for granted that people wanted me to be educated:...
Before Alison, I worked in investment banking and finance with the likes of PWC, Goldman Sachs and Paribas. I also worked for a long time for the Financial Times. I’ve had a couple of books published, one is a novel that teaches people about banking and one is a book about business writing. I’ve spent…
