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Category: David Lee Finkle

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022mrfitzfinkle

The Value of Ambiguity

Sometimes, there isn’t one right answer. Sometimes it’s okay to admit we don’t know.

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May 2, 2022May 2, 2022mrfitzfinkle

Writing Health

What does healthy literacy look like? What does a healthy reading life look like? What does Writing Health look like?

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April 4, 2022April 3, 2022mrfitzfinkle

Writing That Matters: The Emotional Emergency Kit

Letting students journal freely about their lives, their feelings, may be the best emotional learning we can possibly give them.

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March 7, 2022March 7, 2022mrfitzfinkle

The Fiction-Fix for Bad Endings: Incident-Irony

I thought, There must be a key to good endings. It must be a skill – a teachable, practice-able skill.
The answer: Irony.

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February 7, 2022February 7, 2022mrfitzfinkle

The Un-Rubric: An Experiment in Feedback

Rubrics tend to be about compliance, not thinking…

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December 6, 2021December 5, 2021mrfitzfinkle

A Little Write Music

What does Stephen Sondheim have to do with writing instruction? The answer: Everything.

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November 1, 2021October 31, 2021mrfitzfinkle

Reading As Writers: Big Picture and Closeup

Great student writers, the ones whose work I can’t wait to read, notice what writers do and begin to see how it all works together.

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October 4, 2021October 3, 2021mrfitzfinkle

Big Picture/Closeup: a model for reading and writing

Closeup elements are how the story is told. Big Picture elements are the story itself.

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September 6, 2021September 5, 2021mrfitzfinkle

The Choices Writers Make (If Allowed)

“…in many writing classrooms, students are learning to write by not being allowed to do any of the things “real” writers do: make choices.”

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June 7, 2021June 7, 2021mrfitzfinkle

The Power of Writing Collaborative Fiction

The experience of writing a novel together didn’t inhibit individual creativity – it made them all want to go home and write more on their own.

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