# 14: How Do You Teach Writing Skills?

In this episode, we discuss how we teach writing skills to our own students as well as a number of valuable tools that can make the process fun and memorable.

We covered the following topics:

• Common ways to teaching writing to students
• Writer’s block or writer’s bottleneck
• Visual Organizer (The Story Star Method)
• Writing Games at Good Sensory Learning
• Technology

1. Google Keep
2. Wordtune
3. Scrible

• Color coding main ideas
• Learning process that matches your thinking
• Multisensory Learning

Links:

• Bullet Map Academy: https://bulletmapacademy.com/   
• Teaching Writing Skills Course by Dr. Erica Warren: 
• https://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/courses/color-coded-writing-a-structured-and-multisensory-approach-to-teaching-writing-skills 
• Writing Games and Resources at Good Sensory Learning:
• https://goodsensorylearning.com/collections/online-writing-courses 
• The 5 Ws Detective Game: https://goodsensorylearning.com/products/5-ws-detectives-sentence-game?_pos=1&_sid=7c3f4d608&_ss=r 
• Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Games: ​​https://goodsensorylearning.com/products/show-dont-tell-descriptive-writing-game?_pos=2&_sid=19d4d2eca&_ss=r 
• Google Keep: https://keep.google.com/ 
• Scrible: https://www.scrible.com/ 
• Word Tune: https://www.wordtune.com/ 
• Story Star: https://www.bulletmapacademy.com/story-star 
• Executive Functioning Assessment: https://mymemorymentor.com/efcs/ 
• One to one sessions with Dr. Warren: https://learningtolearn.biz/ 
• One to one sessions with Darius: www.ivvi.app
• BulletMap Academy: https://bulletmapacademy.com/
• Learning Specialist Courses:https://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/
• Executive functions and Study Skills Course: https://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/courses/teaching-EF-and-study-strategies 
• Good Sensory Learning: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
• Executive Functionings for Groups and Classes: https://tinyurl.com/4sx3eh3fhttps://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/courses/executive-functioning-games-for-groups-and-classes  
• Dyslexia Productivity Coaching: ⁠⁠http://dyslexiaproductivitycoaching.com/⁠⁠
• Cognitive Flexibility:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/dyslexia-and-executive-function 
• Dyslexia Quiz: ⁠⁠https://bulletmapacademy.com/dyslexia-quiz/⁠⁠
• Inhibitory Control:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/poor-executive-functioning?_pos=3&_sid=19d2b3888&_ss=r 
• Metacognition: https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/teaching-metacognitive-skills?_pos=1&_sid=8c4ed9b58&_ss=r 
• Visualization:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/the-key-to-improved-attention-and-memory-for-optimal-learning?_pos=8&_sid=a9d61809a&_ss=r 
• Inner Voice:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/inner-voice-app?_pos=1&_sid=604e0b13e&_ss=r 
• Working Memory: https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/tagged/working-memory 

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