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Delving into Text with Purpose and Focus
We’re thrilled to introduce you to another new contributing writer, Kelly Tumy. Kelly is a consultant in Texas, former president of TCTELA, incoming editor of the journal English in Texas, and one of the people in this biz that I trust them most. You’ll adore her. You can find out more about Kelly here or […]
3 Writing Experiences to Teach Concision
Every year, a parent comes to me (or, more likely, their child’s advisor or an administrator) with concerns that students aren’t writing pieces that are long enough. Where are the 10-page literary essays? The 20-page research papers? They are interested in quantity. The kind of volume they think will be expected of their child in […]
Becoming a Writer: Establishing explicit writer identities and writer habits
Jennifer has been teaching 10-12th grade English, AP lit, and Writing for the past 18 years, and recently she has launched her high school’s first Writing Center. She is looking forward to sharing specific Writing Center tips with the Moving Writers community! This may be a bit meta, but my first post is both a […]
3 Variations on a Top Ten List
As the summer waned and I prepared to start the year teaching in a new high school, I realized how uncertain I felt in the skin of my new classroom, colleagues, curriculum, and community. Quickly, I realized my opening day plans were slipping into traditional territory: Let’s make sure classroom expectations are clear from day […]
Writing with the James Webb Space Telescope
Ever since NASA began releasing images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, I’ve become reacquainted with my child self’s way of thinking about space–how every Milky Way diorama, every glow in the dark star sticker affixed to the ceiling, every classroom poster of those dusty, celestial bodies evoked deep wonder. Part of the joy […]
A Case for Proofreading Right from the Start
Choose what’s true for you:
A) It makes complete sense to teach/focus on editing and proofreading after the craft lessons.
B) I wish my students’ writing were rid of niggling errors in basic conventions, especially the ones I have already taught.
Writers as Content Creators: Building Ideas to Write On
This summer during Camp Rewrite, I had an illuminating conversation with Utah teacher John Arthur. In his sixth grade classroom, he frames everything students do as “content creation”. After all, Arthur said, this is what every kid wants to be — a content creator. An influencer. So, what would it look like if we reframed […]
Core-Concept One-Pagers: A Fast, Meaningful Content Wrap-Up
To be honest, this isn’t really a writing post. Students do write in this activity, but truly this has much more to do with reading comprehension and synthesis. It was a lightning bolt that struck me at just the right time to help me quickly wrap up a reading unit, so I wanted to share […]
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 […]
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