Teaching students how to “explode the moment” is one of my all-time favorite parts of teaching writing. If you are here, I imagine you are teaching your students personal narrative writing or small-moment writing techniques and are looking for ways to strengthen student writing. Well, you are in the right place. What does “explode the …
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Teaching students how to write an essay is probably one of the most common jobs of English Language Arts teachers around the globe. The methods by which we teach essay writing can also be quite controversial. One school of thought centers on giving students creative liberty and freedom to write something amazing and freeform. After …
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Are you teaching the Units of Study by Lucy Calkins? Let me guess… you are weeding through pages and pages of her teaching resources and thinking, “How does Lucy Calkins’ curriculum translate to actual writing lessons that can be used in my classroom? How am I ever going to cover all of this material in …
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