What Holds Students Back in Writing?

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Four Ways to Breathe Life into Classroom Charts

Melanie Meehan

Melanie Meehan has suggestions for helping teachers reconsider and refresh the anchor charts in their classrooms.

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Something to Talk (and Write) About

Shari Frost

Are too many guided reading groups in the primary grades focused on print processing? Shari Frost discovers that teachers may focus little on helping children make meaning from emergent texts because there is so little to talk about in them. In this book list, she suggest texts that can spark lively discussions among even the youngest readers.

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Reaching Boy Writers

Jodi Mahoney

Principal Jodi Mahoney and teachers in her school embark on a quest to understand boy writers better, and re-evaluate their writing workshops as they read, talk, and take some risks together.