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February 23, 2023February 24, 2023Rebekah O'Dell

The Magic of Flash Revision

I never speak at a conference or work with a district where I don’t talk about the magic of flash drafting. Probably second only to mentor texts, flash drafts have utterly changed the way I teach writing. A flash draft is a super-fast, down-and-dirty draft that moves ideas from your brain to paper. It is […]

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April 7, 2014April 6, 2014Rebekah O'Dell

The Power of Flash Drafting: Less Thinking, More Writing

I am very late to the flash draft party. It’s not a new concept. Ralph Fletcher mentions it in What a Writer Needs, and he attributes the concept to another teacher entirely. But I hadn’t heard about it until a Twitter chat last month when a group of elementary writing teachers raved about its power […]

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