Mentoring: Dashes
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I strategized a bit today about how to help my student understand how to use dashes. I used the About.com piece (that I referenced in my previous blog post) to help me create a five column chart to help my student look for dashes in the books she’s reading in [...]
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Time for our weekly Slice of Life Challenge. Click on the image-linky to link your post to this one.
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Juliann wrote a Slice of Life Story today that included the following paragraph:
This job of teaching is a tricky one. It is one that doesn’t stay behind when you close the classroom door. It follows you home, it taps on your shoulder every time you walk into a book or craft store. Wouldn’t that be [...]
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I thought I was dreaming as I heard the sound of the familiar tone that wakes me every morning. I looked at the clock, 5:12 a.m. I searched for my phone. Not on the night table. I looked to my left and to my right and then jumped out of bed. [...]
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