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Christy Is…
Last week I had the privileged of observing Christy Rush-Levine with her eighth grade language arts classes. Deb Gaby, the reading coach in my district, along with two middle school teachers went with me to check out Christy's approach to remediation. At the heart of her work is reading and writing workshop. I began a list a… Continue reading Christy Is…
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The Essential Role of Writing in Contemporary K-12 Classrooms
We're delighted to be speaking at the Penn State York Summer Institute, which will take place in York, PA in June. We'll be delivering a keynote speech, "Teachers as Writers: Two Perspectives of How Writing Can Change Your Instruction," together on the morning of June 27th. Throughout that day, we'll be leading separate breakout sessions. Ruth's… Continue reading The Essential Role of Writing in Contemporary K-12 Classrooms
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Celebrate the National Day on Writing! #WhatIWrite
I write... a lot. I blog every day on a private, family-only blog I created for my daughter when she was born. I blog about the teaching of writing here and about early childhood literacy over at Raising a Literate Human. I Tweet and use Facebook. I make lists. I craft letters and jot notes… Continue reading Celebrate the National Day on Writing! #WhatIWrite
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Informational Writing that Dazzles + a Giveaway
A couple months back I promised to be more intentional about finding nonfiction picture books to recommend as mentor texts for writing workshop. I've been looking at a lot of informational texts in that time and found a few books by the same author and illustrator team that have dazzled me. A Rock Is Lively,… Continue reading Informational Writing that Dazzles + a Giveaway
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Nudging Joy: A Student Group
I've been thinking a lot lately about the things I know because I write. I've been keeping a little list of these ideas as a crude plan for an article about the topic. When Christy Rush-Levine invited me to lead a study group at her school, she suggested the topic of being a teacher who… Continue reading Nudging Joy: A Student Group
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Weekly SOLSC
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Word Play (a writing night for families)
Tomorrow night I've been invited to talk with parents and host a mini-writing workshop for families. You must know, about a week ago, our youngest, Sam (a first grader), gave two slips of paper to each family member, along with a pen, and said, "Write two titles or story ideas on these slips. I'll be… Continue reading Word Play (a writing night for families)
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Modeling Writing Workshop
Last week I spent a day at Southbury Elementary School in Illinois. (Hello Southbury!) They had students for half a day and the afternoon was a time for us to come together for professional development. In the morning, though, with students, I modeled writing workshop in a fourth grade classroom and a second grade classroom.… Continue reading Modeling Writing Workshop
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Connecting with Characters
My husband and I spent ten hours watching "The Newsroom" this summer. We DVRed all of the episodes so we could watch them at our leisure. By episode four I was hooked by the smart, fast-paced show created by Aaron Sorkin, who I think is a genius when it comes to writing dialogue. After episode… Continue reading Connecting with Characters
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Steph Harvey
I just spent the last two days learning from Stephanie Harvey. (Am I lucky or what?) There are so many big things I'm thinking about. Here's there: We must live curious lives. Not curious like odd...curious like wondering and imagining and questioning. I'm planning to pay attention how curiosity plays out in my ordinary life.… Continue reading Steph Harvey
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