This past week Stacey has posted several great ideas about ways she is going to get her students excited about writing. If you’ve not seen them, then check out her posts from this week — you’ll see meeting area supply boxes, gift wrapping, and writer’s notebook enhancements.
Next week I’m leading a four day training for [...]
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Head spinning with ideas and plans and items to do, while attempting to balance my many roles.
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If you haven’t already seen the Summer 2008 Issue of Teachers & Writers, which is published by the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, then I HIGHLY suggest picking it up soon. The Summer Issue is completely devoted to comic books in the classroom.
At first, I wasn’t so sure that this issue of Teachers [...]
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For the past two years I’ve included “My Writer’s Notebook/Diamond Search” by Brod Bagert inside of every student’s writer’s notebook. However, in addition to Barert’s Poem this year, I’m also going to be putting some writerly advice inside of the kids’ notebooks. These pieces of “advice,” combined with the gift-wrapping of [...]
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