I recently had the good fortune of watching the wonderful Natalie Louis deliver a word study lesson at a school in Harlem. It was so cool. For a mostly upper grade person like me, word study has always been a bit shrouded in mystery. What exactly is the difference between phonemic and phonological awareness? What… Continue reading What I’ve Learned about Word Study
Author: Anna Gratz Cockerille
Anna is a staff developer, literacy coach, and writer, based in New York City. She taught internationally in places such as Sydney, Australia; San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Auckland, New Zealand in addition to New York before becoming a staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University (TCRWP). She has been an adjunct instructor in the Literacy Specialist Program at Teachers College, and teaches at TCRWP where she helps participants bring strong literacy instruction into their classrooms. Anna recently co-wrote Bringing History to Life with Lucy Calkins, part of the 2013 series Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing (Heinemann). She has been a researcher for Lucy Calkins, contributing especially to Pathways to the Common Core (Heinemann, 2012) and Navigating Nonfiction (Heinemann, 2010).
Stronger Essay Writing: Differentiating Between Reasons and Evidence
The word essay comes from the latin exigere, meaning "to ascertain," or "to weigh." It was used in the late 15th century as a verb, meaning "to test the quality of." Writing in essay form certainly leads to these things: weighing of evidence, testing the quality of reasons, ascertaining the strength of an argument. When we teach students… Continue reading Stronger Essay Writing: Differentiating Between Reasons and Evidence
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Setting Up for Writing about History
Will you be teaching your students to write about history soon? Read this first!
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A Writing Conference with an English Language Learner Using Google Translate
Read on for a snippet of a writing conference using Google Translate with an upper elementary student who is learning English.
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Five Grammar Lessons With Sneaky Double-Duty Goals
Check out these quick, easy grammar lessons that will clean up and power up your students' writing.
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Building Ideas in Research Writing
Research-based writing need not be collections of facts. Teach your students to interpret as they research and to use their ideas to expand their writing.
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Independent Persuasive Writing Projects
A possible plan for a unit on persuasive writing independent projects
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 31 OF 31
Huge Congratulations! Today is the final day of the March classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge.
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 30 OF 31
It's the penultimate day in this month's Classroom Slice of Life Story Writing Challenge. Join us!
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 29 OF 31
Wow! It's Day 29 Classroom Slicers!
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Getting the Most Out of Any Professional Development: P.D. Possibilities
Today, Anna wraps up our March blog series on professional development and offers tips for getting the most out of any PD, anytime, anywhere, on any topic.
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CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 28 OF 31
Welcome to Day 28 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge.
TWO WRITING TEACHERS 