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Writing Sundays Writers Workshop Series

Writing Leads and Presentation

Welcome back to my 11th instalment of Writing Sundays.  I’m so glad you are here. This week we worked on “leads”.  That is, we practiced how to start a story.  What great first sentences can you use to “hook” the reader into reading your story?  The kids had fun with these! I began by walking over to the bookshelf and…
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Writing Sundays Writers Workshop Series

Character Development Through Writing

This past week was all about character development. Teachers often find teaching students how to develop their characters, quite difficult; especially with primary students.  Character descriptions in stories are not detailed, seem contrived and don’t allow the reader to visualize.  Starting with drawing and partner work is a great way to begin teaching students all about creating interesting characters. We…
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Writing Sundays Writers Workshop Series

Word Choice in Writing

Hello everyone and thanks for visiting.  This is my 9th edition of Writing Sundays and it’s jam-packed with literacy activities.  Today I will be sharing a “re-do” of an interactive writing lesson, a new interactive writing lesson and a reading and visualizing strategy that I blogged about before with a super awesome book…read on! While I was away sick for…
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Writing Sundays Writers Workshop Series

Remembrance Day For Little Learners

How To Remember the War When You Weren’t There This is a very special version of Writing Sundays. This week, we learned about Remembering.   This week, most of our time was dedicated to Remembrance Day/Veteran’s Day learning.  When I began, I talked to my students about “remembering” the soldiers who fought in the war.  One of my very special…
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Writing Sundays Writers Workshop Series

Best Authors for Writing IDEAS and the Power of Teddy Bears

Hello teacher friends… Thanks for visiting and seeing what we’ve been up to this week.  This is the 7th edition of Writing Sundays.  I hope you find some useful ideas for your classroom. In any given year, my writer’s workshop time is an integration of many different strategies and resources and “teachable moments”.  I don’t see writing as a subject….
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Writing Sundays Writers Workshop Series

Mo Wilems is not BORING!

First off, let me tell you that this edition of Writing Sundays will be short but sweet.  Why?  Two words: Parent Conferences.  I’ll even throw out two more:  Grand Opening.  We spent the week planning and preparing for conferences and rehearsing and decorating for our school Grand Opening. Oh… and 1 more set of 2 words:  Professional Development day.  I…
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