Reading and writing texts online are basic skills that students need to be literate citizens in today's world. Teaching with blogs provides the opportunity to engage students in both of these literacy activities, and the strategy has the additional benefit of enabling students to publish their writing easily and to share their writing with an authentic audience. The article includes links to lots of ideas for how to use blogs in the classroom. (Published Nov. 11, 2019)

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blogging

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writing a blog, ncte, national council of teachers of english, ideas for blogging

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional