Use nature as your guide for writing. Come join Abigail in her beat this month which offers ways to get involved in the beloved Write Out event going on– and ideas to spark your students writing all year long.
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Free PD All Summer from the Vaults in the Moving Writers Community
The Moving Writers Community is designed to be a place for reading and writing teachers to dig deeper and more authentically with one another than the Moving Writers blog can do. It’s a place where I share the real life of my daily classroom (including occasional confessions about how absolutely horribly my Macbeth unit went […]
An End-of-the-Year Essay Unit Plan that Brings Students + Literature Together
When Allison and I wrote Beyond Literary Analysis, we read thousands of pieces of writing in the quest to figure out what kind of analysis professional, published writer truly write outside academia. In other words, beyond what English teachers have culturally and historically deemed to be our analytical territory, what kind of analytical writing will […]
Wandering Around: The untidy parts of a real-life writing process
If you teach writing, you’re likely very familiar with The Writing Process. Not a (lower-case) writing process: The Writing Process. The exact wording may shift slightly, but essentially it’s the same standard sequence that one must follow in order to fully be a capital W Writer: you plan, draft, revise, edit, and finally, publish. It’s […]
The Moving Writers Community Guide to Article of the Week
Each month in the Moving Writers Community, I share a complete reading or writing unit plan from my classroom. But this month, by popular demand, I am instead sharing an 11-page e-book detailing the process and resources I use for Kelly Gallagher’s famous Article of the Week in my own classroom. Here’s what you’ll find […]
Moving Writers Community Freebies (+ a discount for the new school year!)
Moving Writers has always existed to support writing teachers, and the Moving Writers Community is just our even-more-intimate version of that. A place to receive ideas and resources, a place for professional development, and a place to talk — to ask questions and get answers without judgment, to swap ideas, to be in community with […]
Graphic Novel Writing: A Breather Unit
A few posts ago, I wrote about what Beth Rimer calls “Breather Units.” A Breather Unit is a 2-3 week mini-unit in which a teacher engages in something lighter–or perhaps does a bit of review–after a deep and intense unit of study. Inspired by a Graphic Novel Writing unit Rebekah posted to the Moving Writers […]
A Poem a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Writing poetry can reduce stress? Shouldn’t all children have access to this tool? In this months beat Abigail brings 3 familiar poetry templates into the content area classrooms.
You’re Invited to My Vocabulary Instruction PLC…
Last year, I shared a lot about the language field guides I use in my classroom to help students not just memorize (and forget) words but explore words and use them to improve their reading and writing! Here are those posts: Language Exploration That Changes Writers in 30 Minutes per Week Field Guide Entries That […]
Pre-Service + First Year Teachers Are Invited to Join the Moving Writers Community…for FREE!
We are passionate about supporting teachers with the resources they need to be the kind of teacher they imagined being. And who could use more support than those entering the profession? We LOVE pre-service and first year teachers, so we are offering free membership to our Moving Writers Community! Complete this form to sign up!
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