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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.
June 11, 2021: Conventions
Conventions is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
June 4, 2021: Multimodal Writing
Multimodal writing and fairy tales is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
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.
May 28, 2021: Craft Moves for Writers
Craft Moves for Writers is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
Where the Writing Carries Meaning
Ruth Ayres explains the way image, text, and sound work together to create meaningful writing. She helps us consider where the writing carries the most meaning, as well as how these modes work together.
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.
Editing to Consolidate
Jen Schwanke outlines ways to make substantial cuts to a draft in order to have confidence in the clarity of a message.
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.
May 21, 2021: Transfer of Learning
Transfer of Learning is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
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.
May 14, 2021: Perspectives
Perspectives is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
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.
May 7, 2021: Connections
Connections is the theme of this week’s newsletter.
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