How can Severance help teach students about the college essay? Annabella Twomey, Write the World alumna and college essay advisor, shares how you can use popular TV shows to teach personal narrative writing and prime students for their application essays.

📖 In this video, we'll explore:.✅ How Tolkien built a deep, believable world 🌍.✅ Secrets to writing complex and relatable characters 🧙‍♂️.✅ Structuring an epic fantasy or sci-fi journey ⚔️.✅ Using powerful themes to elevate your storytelling 🔥.

Thanks to the insights of teens, teachers, & AI experts across the globe, Clara is now (optionally) available across all prompts on our writing platform. Teens helped compile over 33 sample uses, prompts, and reflection questions to use as a guide here:

Sign up to bring Clara to your school or district as a pilot this fall:

✅ Save grading & feedback time.✅ 24/7 writing tutor for your students. Write the World's new Socratic AI tool, Clara, is designed not to generate text for students but to pose thoughtful, open-ended questions that inspire deeper thinking.

Learn more about our unique approach to creating an AI writing tool with and for teens in this video featuring Benjamin Klieger, who originally developed Clara as a teen at Stanford University. Watch the full video:

This is a great way to add disability literature into your curricula next school year, in an effort to create a more inclusive classroom. Available with a donation of $3.

July marks Disability Pride Month in the U.S., and our newest curriculum packet includes a prompt, reading, full lesson plan, and AI extension activity designed to encourage students to learn and think critically about disability rights, justice, and pride.

This is a great way to add disability literature into your curricula next school year, in an effort to create a more inclusive classroom. Available with a donation of $3.

Looking for ways to prevent summer melt? Share these summer reading and writing activities with the teens in your life to keep their literacy strong.

Now, she’s an environmental scientist and published researcher—proof that storytelling and science can shape a better future.

📖💡 Writing has the power to connect, motivate, and transform. 🌍✨ From young writer to published researcher, Hannah Flores, 21, Canada, first joined Write the World during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding inspiration and a global community of passionate writers.

Engaging teenagers and teachers in our community to discuss, ideate, and innovate is an important part of the process--keeping students’ integrity and authentic voices at the core of all that we do.

AI technology is changing education and raising critical questions about ethics, creativity, literacy, and pedagogy. At Write the World, we’ve spent years researching AI to determine best practices for using it to augment—not replace—students’ learning.

No matter where you are in the world, this day presents an important reminder & opportunity to reflect on themes of justice, identity, freedom, & civil rights. Our writing prompt, "Juneteenth & Justice," offers a starting point: .📝

📜 What is Juneteenth? .June 19 is Juneteenth in the United States, the day when slavery officially ended in 1865, despite President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation into law more than 2 years prior. In 2021, the day was recognized as a federal holiday.

Plus, invite students to deepen their craft through our virtual summer sci-fi/fantasy writing camp:

Do you or your students love sci-fi and fantasy stories? From The Hunger Games to Harry Potter, Star Wars to Ray Bradbury, these genres give young readers & writers many avenues into the craft of creative writing. Check out our latest sci-fi prompt now:

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Strengthen students’ ability to clearly explain ideas, analyze topics, and present information effectively with Informative/Explanatory Writing. Our new writing curriculum packet is available to provide support!