Inspired by Davis and Hill’s Book The No-Nonsense Guide to Teaching Writing: Strategies, Structures, and Solutions, which is published by Heinemann, I began giving my students weekend writing assessments last year. One of the girls in my class suggested that I change-up the Weekend Writer’s Notebook Assessment Form (which I had already [...]
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I’m a big proponent of Responsive Classroom, which places as much value on the social curriculum as the academic curriculum. (I attending a Responsive Classroom Institute during the Summer of 2006. It was excellent, informative, and exceedingly helpful to me as a teacher!)
Even if you’re teaching in a school that doesn’t do R.C., [...]
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Ruth liked the idea of keeping all of my OLWs in the same binder. Hence, I decided to go back to the 2007 OLW Word Up List and created pages that illustrate the following words:
my
delight
perfect
balance (This is my OLW for 2008.)
seek
I’m hoping to finish (over the course of the next couple of weeks), [...]
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