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Tag: Mentor Text

May 5, 2022May 3, 2022Abigail Lund

A Perfect Personification Mentor Text  

Abigail takes us through a mentor text which has endless amount of uses. She gives you a quick guide to this perfect personification mentor and hopes you will try it out too.

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May 3, 2022May 3, 2022Sam Futrell

Turn Local History into Advocacy with Three Different Writing Projects

One of my biggest challenges as a teacher is getting students to feel connected to history. To them, especially at the middle school age, history might as well be the Milky Way– kids are told that it’s real and that they are a part of it, but the scope of history often has such galactical […]

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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 15, 2022March 4, 2022Rebekah O'Dell

Mini-Mentors for Making a Claim

My students have been working on their first pieces of serious analytical writing this year, and as they drafted I noticed two main issues with their claims: Many were not clearly or obviously stated Some were overly-simple, cliched, or, to be honest, boring Ever have these problems? (Always? Are you like me and you always […]

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March 8, 2022March 8, 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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February 16, 2022February 15, 2022Rebekah O'Dell

It’s “Bring Rebekah to School” Day!

Yesterday’s Mini Moves for Writers subscriber giveaway was ADAM NOACK! Adam, please get in touch with me to claim your prize. One of our favorite features of Mini Moves for Writers is the sheer number of different ways they can be used to support your student writers. So far this week we’ve seen how they […]

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January 21, 2022January 20, 2022Brett Vogelsinger

Learning From Poems: Grand Finales

This year on Moving Writers, my “beat” returns to poetry as a foundational element of a writing classroom. Each month’s post will examine how we can learn about an aspect of writing from a specific poem or poems, then look at what it might sound like to extend those ideas to a writing lesson in […]

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November 9, 2021October 14, 2021Rebekah O'Dell

RIP, Mentor Text Dropbox

This is a love story. In 2012, Allison and I applied for the same job at a local high school. One position. Two of us. We had never met and were not remotely aware of one another’s existence even though we had shared a couple years at the same university. On a Monday, I got […]

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October 7, 2021October 6, 2021Abigail Lund

Are We a Match? A Remix on Dating Profiles

This months beat Abigail takes you through a Remix using “dating profiles” Students create matches which allow for students to deepen their understanding of characterization, comparing/contrasting, and creating an engaging writing lesson. This one really can expand any content area.

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June 3, 2021June 3, 2021Abigail Lund

One Word: A [end of year or beginning] Writing Challenge

In Abigail’s final post of the year she walks you through an end of the year reflection activity which could be done in any class/grade level. End the year with filling your classroom with words.

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