This month @mrsablund takes you through the mentor our students know best… social media. How can we use this in our classrooms as writers? Read to find out!
Category: mini-mentors
Mini-Mentors for Making a Claim
My students have been working on their first pieces of serious analytical writing this year, and as they drafted I noticed two main issues with their claims: Many were not clearly or obviously stated Some were overly-simple, cliched, or, to be honest, boring Ever have these problems? (Always? Are you like me and you always […]
Offering Students Choice + Voice Through Mini Moves
I love a good digital choice board — a way for students to have a self-directed choice in their learning. You can make choice boards out of anything, but you can also curate your own choice board using Mini Moves for Writers videos. I’ve made you one choice board below: four different mini moves that […]
Targeting Writing Instruction to Students’ Needs
Every writer needs something a little bit different, which is one of the things that makes writing instruction so challenging! But whether the writers in your room need a bit of skill review (one of those things you assumed they “should know how to do by now”) or needs a bit of a challenge (so […]
It’s “Bring Rebekah to School” Day!
Yesterday’s Mini Moves for Writers subscriber giveaway was ADAM NOACK! Adam, please get in touch with me to claim your prize. One of our favorite features of Mini Moves for Writers is the sheer number of different ways they can be used to support your student writers. So far this week we’ve seen how they […]
One SIMPLE Way to Take Your Sentence Study to the Next Level
Yesterday’s winner in our Mini Moves for Writers subscriber giveaway is STACEY REEDER! Stacy, please contact me at movingwriters@gmail.com to get your free copy of A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO MENTOR TEXTS! We’re giving away prizes all week — subscribe to our channel to make sure you are entered to win! Sentence study is a bedrock […]
A New Mini Move for Writers Video + Details About Our Launch Week
We hope you’re loving the sneak peeks at Mini Moves for Writers we’ve been sharing this week. Next week is our official LAUNCH WEEK! We can’t wait! Today, we’re sharing a new move: Figurative Language that Makes You Go ‘Huh!’. This move engages the reader by painting specific pictures in the reader’s mind, and it […]
Mini-Mentors for Literary Analysis(+ a Sneak Peek at a BIG New Project!)
Catch up on the whole mini-mentors series! Mini-Mentors for Review Writing, Prompt-Based Writing, and Revision! In the previous iterations of this series, I’ve suggested some ways you might use these mini-mentors in your own classroom: as sentence study warm-ups, as whole-class lessons, in small-group and individual writing conferences. But, you’ll notice something different and special […]
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