Katrina Edwards has her students think of something brave they did for a writing share session.
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Katrina Edwards is a first-grade teacher and literacy coach in West Linn, Oregon.
Tara Barnett and Kate Mills use the Sara Bareilles song “Brave” to help their fourth-grade students move from bed-to-bed stories to more emotive writing early in the year.
Ruth Ayres tells the story of Noah, a brave first grader with a hard home life who has few happily ever afters as a writer.
Katrina Edwards looks for clues in her first-grade students’ work and conferences to help them develop more writing stamina. She analyzes her notes to develop instructional plans.
Katrina Edwards helps first grader Lila stretch her writing about going to a park on a rainy day.
Katrina Edwards preps her students for lunchtime chats with classmates to foster more social and conversation skills.
In this whole-class writing-share session from Katie DiCesare’s first-grade classroom, Katie talks about how she has become more purposeful in connecting student drafts with the minilesson from the start of the writing workshop.
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