With a little bit of creativity and flexibility, you can add more writing time to your classes!
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Mentor Text Wednesday – TV Poetry
Mentor Text: The Twin Peaks poetry of Liz Worth Writing Techniques: Poetry Manipulating existing text for creative purposes Pop culture analysis Creative response Editing Background: I’ve already admitted to how I feel about magazines in this column. They’re these wonderful collections of information and inspiration that call to me on a regular basis. I read […]
Drop Everything and Play: Creating Opportunities for Creativity
The goal of dropping everything and playing is to transform the fear of a new text into an opportunity for pure creativity.
Writer’s Telephone – an Information-Gathering, Idea-Nuturing Strategy
I feel like I’ve been engaged in a pedagogical ancestry project recently — mapping my teaching forebears through generations. In floods of professional books, blogs, Tweets, and chats, these ideals into which I have become so deeply entrenched sometimes lose their original source. Like a game of educational Telephone, the message gets translated and retranslated, […]
Mentor Text Wednesday: The Writer’s Bio
Writers’ bios provide lessons in voice, brevity and writing for social media.
Three Different Approaches to Flash Drafting
No matter where students are in their writing, flash drafting can be a useful exercise if students are invited to flash draft on their own terms.
Watch Us on #theEdCollabGathering!
What a thrill it was to go LIVE this morning with #theEdCollabGathering to chat about Notebook Time and the ways it moves our student writers forward through play and discovery! You can view our session here, on The Educator Collaborative’s Gathering site, or here on YouTube! You can get all of our materials by […]
Mentor Text Wednesday: The Feature Article
The feature article might just be some of the most important writing students do!
Teaching Shakespeare (and Literary Analysis!) with Prompt Books
This April, English teachers, Anglophiles, all buddies of the Bard will commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Museums, libraries, schools, and theater companies are marking the occasion with special events like the homecoming of the Globe to Globe tour of Hamlet, which will have performed in around 200 countries by the […]
See You Next Saturday at #theEdCollabGathering
We are over-the-moon to be joining some amazing educators across the country at #theEdCollabGathering on Saturday, April 2nd! It’s online! And it’s free! Join us here at 11am EST as we share about how notebook time helps our students play, experiment, and take risks in their writing! https://gathering.theeducatorcollaborative.com/session-one/workshop-2/
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