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Unworkshop
Wouldn't it be great to escape for a few days to just write? Oh, do I have a place for you! You won't have to cook a single meal, it's tranquil, there's wifi, AND it's affordable.
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Beginning Year Read Alouds
A list of beginning of the year read aloud books to set a positive climate and kick start your workshop.
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Table Conferences: An Important Coaching Move at the Start of the Year
Over the summer, we catch up on professional reading, we organize our classrooms, we make plans. In our reading and our planning, we imagine the very best possible scenarios. We see our children working diligently and for long stretches at their writing spots, living writerly lives, generating one powerful idea after another. To be sure, we… Continue reading Table Conferences: An Important Coaching Move at the Start of the Year
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There Are More Ways Than One To Teach A Minilesson
Last week I wrote a post titled How To Plan A Minilesson From Scratch, and I outlined a very simple way to plan minilessons, based on the work of my wonderful colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Now, I am going to backtrack a bit and revisit just a teensy weensy bit of what I said. I wrote, "Every minilesson can pretty much go the same way." And this is absolutely true, most of the time. Except for those times when it's not true.
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Interactive Writing: Don’t Close the Door
Interactive Writing? Yeah, I wasn't a believer. I will admit this openly; I had kind of fought against it and did not see it working in my classroom until many years ago. What is Interactive writing is essentially when the teacher models reading and writing strategies while sharing the pen with students as they create… Continue reading Interactive Writing: Don’t Close the Door
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Reading Fuels Writing
Need some inspiration to write? Fall into a great book and read like a writer!
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Good for the Brain
Want to help your students focus better during independent writing time? A recent NY Times piece by Daniel J. Levitin may hold the key to making this happen in your classroom.
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If You Ask Them
Stop lurking and start writing. It is the single most important thing you can do as a teacher of writing. It matters.
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Writing History in Many Forms
Want some fresh ways to channel your students to write about history? This post offers some light and fast tips that could easily be turned into weighty and meaningful instruction.
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How to Plan a Minilesson from Scratch
Minilessons are actually really easy to plan, and fun to teach. What? You don't believe me? Let me show you, right now, how to do it.
