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Category: 100 Days of Summer Writing
100 Days of Summer Writing: FAQ
The 2nd annual 100 Days of Summer Writing is underway! Welcome, new friends! So good to see you, friends from last summer! We are hopeful that this will be a restorative and transformative experience for you both as a person and as a writing teacher! We are also grateful to those of you who registered […]
100 Days of Summer Writing 2019: A Call for Mentor Texts
Friends, it’s almost time. Moving Writers is hosting its second annual 100 Days of Summer Writing — a mentor-text driven writing exploration for teachers and students alike! But we need your help! We need to compile (at least) 100 mentor-text-inspired writing invitations! And we want YOU to contribute a verse! Here’s how: Find some mentor […]
A #100DOSW18 Check-In Chat!
We are almost halfway through our summer of writing, so it’s a perfect time to stop and check-in with one another, touch base, and start thinking forward to the fall when our experiences as writers this summer will begin to touch our teaching of writing. No matter where you are in your 100 Days or […]
#100DOSW18, 3rd Grade Edition (a #100DOSW18 Reflection)
Today’s guest post by Jenifer Pastore (@jeniferpastore) inspires me. Putting together 100 Days of Summer Writing is kind of a lot of work. And Jenifer is doing it by herself. For her 3rd graders. Every time I see one of her slides, I want to stand up and cheer: all kids (and teachers) can do this! Jenifer […]
Choice is Clutch — a #100DOSW18 Reflection
Throughout the summer, we’ll be bringing you stories from teachers who are participating in the 100 Days of Summer Writing! We hope that we can all find inspiration as we hear how this summer writing practice is changing the way teachers and students alike look at the writing process. Our first guest post is from Melissa […]
100 Days of Summer Writing: Twitter Chats
Our friends participating in the 100 Days on Twitter are dying to talk in real time about our experiences so far! So, here is a series of three Twitter chats for 100 Days-ers! The first is THIS SUNDAY, June 3. We’ll talk about our first-week experiences, brilliant ideas for managing the 100 Days, and more! […]
Poppin’ and Writin’ All Summer Long
I’ve been learning a ton on Twitter recently, like the fact that many of you are already on summer vacation. And I am not. I eventually moved past that, though, and decided to write this post anyway. After all, we’re all colleagues and once I’m finally on summer break too in a couple weeks, I’m […]
Ideas for Getting Students Involved in the 100 Days of Summer Writing
You can find everything you need for the 100 Days of Summer Writing right here — including the slidedeck, blog posts for teachers using the 100 Days instructions for students, instructions for teachers, a link for registration, and a link to our online community on Facebook! ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Shhhhh … I need to whisper this: I […]
9 Writing Hacks for the Most Prolific 100 Days of Summer Writing Yet
During the school year, Time is one of our biggest hurdles. There is never enough time to do all the things. Summer is a fantasy with its long, light, unencumbered days spread out before us. We plan road trips and brewery crawls and projects and beach days and fill our calendar with all the things […]
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