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Combining Personal Narratives and Comics
Katherine Sokolowski combines personal narratives and comics to encourage students to go deeper in their storytelling.
Using Art to Bridge Storytelling
Stella Villalba creates space for students to deeply notice the way artist Aminah Robinson uses images to share stories and testimonies.
Teaching Students How to Email
Katherine Sokolowski outlines the nitty-gritty on how to teach students to organize, manage, and compose email.
Rethinking Late-Work Policies
Gretchen Schroeder asks herself tough questions about her late-work policy for high school students. In the end, she changed her late-work policy and found that it took no effort on her part, other than a shift in mindset, while yielding powerful results.
Google Classroom Boot Camp
Katherine Sokolowski takes time each year to help students know how Google Classroom works and details ways to take advantage of it as an organizational tool.
Four Tools for Hosting Online Book Clubs
Matt Renwick leads us to design book clubs where students can continue to grow and connect as readers in online discussions.
Finding Reliable Digital Reading Resources
Cathy Mere shares how to find reliable digital reading resources to pair with print materials to provide strong opportunities for student learning.
Playing with Words
Heather Fisher considers the possibilities for extending vocabulary development through a daily word routine.
Offering Playful Choice to Show Learning
Tammy Mulligan shares her quick thinking when students are bored with book clubs and reminds us all of the importance of offering playful choice for students to show their learning.
Sensible Reasons to Use Student Reading Records
Leigh Anne Eck outlines sensible reasons for students to keep reading records. She considers guidance for book selection, data for teachers, and entry points for reading conferences.
Conventions Podcast with Jen Schwanke
Jen Schwanke joins the podcast to discuss conventions.
The Choice Literacy Book Club Discusses My Hero Academia, Volume 1
The Choice Literacy Book Club discusses My Hero Academia, Volume 1 by Kohei Horikoshi.
Fairy Tales with a Multimodal Twist: Process and Product
In this second installment, Julie Johnson guides the process of creating multimodal fairy tales, as well as discusses producing the final product.
Fairy Tales with a Multimodal Twist: Laying the Groundwork
Julie Johnson outlines the groundwork for creating multimodal fairy tales in writing workshop.
Fairy Tale Study that Needed a Restart
Mandy Robek takes a step back to relaunch a fairy tale study so students can engage in inquiry work in order to discover key characteristics of the genre.
Craft Moves in Before the Ever After
Melanie Meehan unlocks a few craft moves in Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson.
Overplayed Mentor Texts
Bitsy Parks outlines how to select mentor texts in order to have more ownership over the lesson and engage students.
Conventions and Keeping It Real
Melanie Quinn uses her fourth graders love of drama to create a fun activity for learning how to integrate quotations into writing.
Is Grammar-Check Cheating?
Gretchen Schroeder discusses grammar tools and the reasons students should use them as writers.
Creating Places for Dialogue
Leigh Anne Eck cracks open why dialogue is important in narrative writing and where to place dialogue in a story. She includes student samples that show the power of this craft move.
Transfer of Learning Podcast with Melanie Meehan
Melanie Meehan discusses the transfer of learning using pictures.
Crafting Argumentative Essays
Gretchen Schroeder shares a summative assessment inspired by Song Exploder in which her high school students craft an argumentative essay defending a choice of a great song.
Yoga Poses and Workshop Processes: Honor the Journey
Nawal Qarooni is inspired by her yoga practice to provide a guided reflection to consider if workshop practices are progressing to a transfer of learning.
How Pictures Can Engage and Inspire Writers
Melanie Meehan shows how pictures offer ways to expand access to students as writers by providing scaffolds and inspiration.
Writers’ Club
In her high school writing workshop, Julie Cox noticed that students wrote eagerly, but struggled to give and accept feedback. To increase student ownership and trust, she started Writers’ Club, and it affected transfer of learning in big ways!
Perspectives Podcast with Stella Villalba
Stella Villalba discusses the importance of perspectives.
Beyond Personal Narrative: A Change in Perspective
Cathy Mere nudges us to consider perspective as a craft move and provides a stack of mentor texts in this booklist.
Mother Language Day and Tradition Presentations
Bitsy Parks shares special events that help students widen their scope of acceptance and appreciation for the differences among us.
Finding the Purpose in Antiracist Literature Instruction
Gretchen Schroeder shares her failures in preparing for antiracist literature instruction, and the principles she uses to empower meaningful conversations about race.
Connections Podcast Brian Sepe
Brian Sepe discusses the importance of connections and mantras.
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