Helping Teachers Inspire Learners
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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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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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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Student led conferences are one of the best things that you can do with your students to build ownership of learning. I tend to be the only one in the school that usually does student-led conferences in the Fall. Most of my colleagues feel that it’s too soon and that students won’t be prepared or have enough to share. They…
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Why is it that some students just seem to be able to work hard on their assignments or anything for that matter and other students get distracted so easily? There seems to be no shortage of ideas from teachers when it comes to school: 1. Too much time is spent playing video games. 2. Students are bored. 3. Students have…
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Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to Writing Sundays. It’s been a crazy week! I have a new student who does not speak English and is having difficulty understanding that running out of the room when you feel like it is not acceptable (and it gives the teacher a heart attack!) I must say though, that the students in my room…
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