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Minimizing Transition Time: Maximizing Writing Time Blog Series
When it comes to working out, there are definitely times when I appreciate the break I get during the transition times, and I’m sure that students, maybe even unintentionally, have figured out that longer transitions lead to shorter working time. Yet time on task is critical to move forward on goals, no matter what the goals are. Maximizing time-- in exercise or writing-- leads to progress.
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Six Tips to Keep Minilessons Short: Maximizing Writing Time
Keeping minilessons succinct, engaging, and brief is one of the best ways to maximize time since it never feels as though we have enough of it.
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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge
Join us every Tuesday for our weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge!
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Writing as Social-Emotional Development: Maximizing Writing Time
Let’s turn our attention to the classroom, to the kids in our care. Like many of us, they need a space to release burdens, to feel the same connection and validation that has kept us afloat. This, my friends, is where we begin. THIS is where we claim our power as writers, as teachers of writing. No matter the age of our students, no matter their readiness level, no matter the constrictions of a mandated writing system, there are ways to create and protect a nurturing, supportive community of young writers.
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Begin With Strong Planning: Maximizing Writing Time Blog Series
Actually doing the work of writers is where writers strengthen their skills—and this takes at least two thirds of the total minutes in any workshop. The more clear we can be while unit planning, the more strategic our instructional time will be, leaving more time for writers to write.
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Maximizing Writing Time: Our January Blog Series
In this blog series, my colleagues and I will share some of the ways we’ve learned to make the most out of every minute of writing workshop.
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Flailing and Feedback In Writing Process As Critical: KidLit Authors Share Why
Slowing down the brainstorming part of the writing process and recognizing the emotionality of feedback has big rewards for two published authors, in addition to our young classroom writers.
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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge
Join us every Tuesday for our weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge!
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MLK Day: A Reflection
Today, in the United States, we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Today, kids in the U.S. might eat breakfast in pajamas. Their parents might shop a sale. Many will see (and welcome!) a day off of school or work. Some will use today as a day of service. It’s easy to let a day like today slide by without taking stock, without offering it the full measure of what a day like today deserves. So let us consider today.
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Above and Beyond the Writing Workshop: A Book Review and Giveaway
My hope is that you win or order this book and take on a challenge or two– maybe even create your own.
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Overview of the April 2022 Classroom SOLSC
Who else is dreaming of April and brighter, better days? The Classroom SOLSC is right around the corner (with hopefully those brighter and better days!)
