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February 23, 2015February 21, 2015Rebekah O'Dell

Turning Mentor Texts into Book Talks

After losing days of school due to snow, I’m in a familiar we’re-never-going-to-get-everything-done panic. I feel this way every winter. The fact is this: none of us have enough time with our students. We constantly feel the pull of more-to-do; we live in the tension of what we have to teach and what we want to […]

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