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Reading-Writing Connections: Focus on Conventions

Here's a link to the final document that focuses on how to lift the level of your students' conventions by using The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg.  (If you haven't seen the draft I posted last week, then click here.)

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Draft of a New Craft Table About Ahlberg’s The Pencil: A Work-in-Progress

I've been working on a new craft table about Ahlberg's Book The Pencil for the past couple of days.  I hope to use this craft table in writing conferences with my students when we get to our fiction picture book unit in March. So far, this is what I've come up with: The final version,… Continue reading Draft of a New Craft Table About Ahlberg’s The Pencil: A Work-in-Progress

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Coming Soon… A New Craft Table

I've been pouring over Allan Ahlberg's  The Pencil, which came out last year, but came on to my radar a few weeks ago.  I've been trying to figure out how to use it as a mentor text with my students, which is why I haven't written about it yet.  However, after a lot of deliberation,… Continue reading Coming Soon… A New Craft Table