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August 22, 2016August 21, 2016Rebekah O'Dell

The First Thing: Writers are Readers.

On Moving Writers and in Writing With Mentors, you get a taste of my classroom and a peek behind the curtain of my planning process. But what you see is only half the story. While I am passionate about writing instruction, it’s only one half of my instruction. I also teach literature — through whole […]

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August 8, 2016August 7, 2016Rebekah O'Dell

The First Thing: a Moving Writers series for a new school year

  When I start to think about a new school year, I have a tendency to mentally skip straight from buying school supplies in August to April — the place where my class is a well-oiled machine of student writers who live and breathe our workshop rhythms. In my mind’s eye,  I can see them […]

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