Many of the classrooms I'm working in are launching into a personal narrative study. I've encouraged all of them to approach their study from an inquiry stance. Meaning, get lots of personal narratives and have students read, read, read them. Then choose a couple and have students study them as writers. I've been reading Study… Continue reading Inquiry Stance.
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Write Beside Them.
Late last week, this book came in the mail. Write Beside Them, by Penny Kittle has me glued to the couch, with highlighter in hand. I'm beginning to think it may be easier to highlight the stuff that I don't want to remember than all of the words that are striking me at the… Continue reading Write Beside Them.
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Hello Slicers!
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Ruth’s MM: Laney Windelon.
In 1984 my parents gave me Laney Windelon, my very own Cabbage Patch kid to adopt. I remember Laney being the first gift to ever bring tears to my eyes. She was made just for me. I wanted: red hair; two braids; blue eyes; closed mouth smile; and a dimple. My mom searched… Continue reading Ruth’s MM: Laney Windelon.
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Inspiring Writers.
My presentation, Inspiring Writers, is divided into a few different parts. First, a read aloud: Second , the slide presentation: Inspiring Writers - Upload a Document to Scribd Next a writer's notebook entry: Make a list of things that make you happy. Click here for inspiring tunes. Then an excerpt from Penny Kittle's… Continue reading Inspiring Writers.
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Inspired Writers?
Tonight I'm giving a presentation entitled: Inspiring Writers. I chose this title a month ago because I knew it was general enough to cover anything I may want to discuss. For the past few weeks I've been struggling with this presentation. Simply, what do I want to tell these teachers? How, in an hour, can… Continue reading Inspired Writers?
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Discussion Forum.
Woo-hoo, I'm going to be teaching my English 9 class in a 1:1 Classroom. This means there is a computer for every student! As you can imagine, the wheels are spinning about ways I can use technology to help students become more authentic readers and writers. I'll be using Moodle as the course management system. … Continue reading Discussion Forum.
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Playing with Time
Since my students are quickly publishing a small moment story this week, I only had one day (yesterday) to teach a revision strategy. I chose to teach them how to play with time, which is an idea I adapted from Jim Vopat's Micro Lessons for Writing book. I gave my students a mini-chart for the… Continue reading Playing with Time
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Hard Work Should Be Celebrated
Katherine Bomer talked about celebrations this past summer at the TCRWP July Writing Institute. As I was planning my News & Announcements Charts for the upcoming week today, I found myself wanting to write about writing on four out of five of them. You see, I want my students to realize that their hard work… Continue reading Hard Work Should Be Celebrated
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This is the only kind of jogging you’re going to see me do!
Kevin, Creator of Day in a Sentence, used a new technology, Jog the Web, to showcase everyone's posts this week. I was fascinated with the ease at which I was able to navigate through the websites of the Day in a Sentence Contributors. In fact, I liked Kevin's Jog so much that I created a… Continue reading This is the only kind of jogging you’re going to see me do!
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Using Asterisks
During the demonstration of today's minilesson I added asterisks to my WN Entry to show a flashback in time. I said something like, "I'm going to put some stars here, called asterisks, to show that I'm going back in time. This is something that writers like Patricia MacLachlan, whose book, Journey, you read in third… Continue reading Using Asterisks
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Stacey’s SOLSC & A Great Writing Conference Collide
SOLSC for 091608 - Knowing the Right Thing to Say Originally uploaded by teachergal I had one of the most amazing early-in-the-school-year writing conferences today. The student literally pondered what she was working on as a writer. She didn't tell me about her writing like most kids do during the first few weeks of school… Continue reading Stacey’s SOLSC & A Great Writing Conference Collide
