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November 29, 2022November 22, 2022Rebekah O'Dell

Place-Based Poetry Writing “Slow Unit”

Sometime during the first week of school this year, I taped this note to my desk: I wanted this year to be different. Not just different than the last few years of COVID School, but different than all the other years of my teaching that valued efficiency and productivity almost above all. (I love efficiency. […]

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September 1, 2022September 1, 2022Abigail Lund

First Writing Moves of the School Year: PART 2 (Storytelling)

How do we get students to buy into writing? How do we begin to hear their stories. Oral storytelling is a way to engage your writers in a low stakes way and create a basis for a really strong writing community.

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June 2, 2022May 31, 2022Abigail Lund

Dream Boards

In this school years last beat Abigail takes you through a writing strategy of “dream/vision boards” to cast a vision for the future with your students.

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April 7, 2022April 5, 2022Abigail Lund

An Epic Mentor: Social Media

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!

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March 8, 2022September 13, 2022Sam Futrell

7 Ways to Get Students Writing about the War in Ukraine

Between this post and my last, a war began. And we shouldn’t be surprised. Like the rise of Nazi Germany after WWI, the conflict in Ukraine has been building for more than twenty years. Putin and his post-Soviet ancestors have been playing a game of Hungry Hippos with the Ukraine and former Soviet satellite states […]

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September 26, 2021September 26, 2021Rebekah O'Dell

28 Mini-Mentors for Prompt-Based Writing

Catch up on my series this fall. Last month I shared mini-mentors for review writing! Sadly, some students only write in response to prompts in English class. Whether it’s daily journaling prompts or larger essay prompts, these students miss out on one of the toughest parts of an authentic writing practice: developing ideas. Still, both […]

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May 6, 2021May 6, 2021Abigail Lund

Playlist of Your Life

Playlists are constantly playing in my classroom and house. But what are the playlist of our lives? In this piece Abigail takes you through the moves of using writing playlists to create meaningful narratives.

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April 1, 2021April 1, 2021Abigail Lund

The Enneagram Meets the ELA Classroom

Ever heard of the Enneagram? How could implementing personality types into ELA help your students better analyze characters and create authentic characters? I take you through some moves in this MW piece

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March 4, 2021March 1, 2021Abigail Lund

You’re a Poet.. Didn’t You Know It?

Have you heard of the Important Book? Margaret Wise takes us through a mentor text that will help your students engage in a rich vocabulary centered writing lesson and ask themselves.. what is the most important thing? [Perfect lesson to take writing out of the ELA classroom and into math]

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January 22, 2021January 22, 2021Michael Ziegler

Guided by (too many) Voices

It’s funny how a few things in school remain mostly normal despite everything else feeling so strange this year.  Like the annual arrival of National Honors Society nominations– it was a nice reminder of “normal” when a student in my Zoom last week asked if we could set up a breakout room so he could […]

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