Tonight I asked my first grade daughter, “What did you do in writing workshop today?”
She beamed — literally beamed up at me with her toothless grin and said, “Oh Mom, it was great — I learned how to fix up and fancy up my writing! A celebration is coming!”
And here you have it — the [...]
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I’ll be using this with my students tomorrow. Just wanted to share!
The topic I would like to write my personal essay about is: _______________________________
The big thing I really want to say (or claim) about my topic is: ____________________________
Here are several thesis statements starters I could use to prove my point about the [...]
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I’ve been thinking about this post for a few weeks now. I’ve heard teachers ask students to “fix” their writing when asking them to revise. For some reason, this word — fix — hits me like a knife in my gut. What do they mean fix? And if the writing is so bad that it [...]
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I just found out a proposal two of my instructors from Teachers College submitted to the 2009 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting in San Diego got accepted. I will be presenting along with them, and three other former classmates from the Literacy Specialist Program at T.C., at AERA in mid-April 2009. [...]
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