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Facilitating Writing Identity
READ MORE →: Facilitating Writing IdentityI have been in curriculum facilitation for 11 years. It is vital to have a strategic…
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What is in Your Conferring Toolkit?
READ MORE →: What is in Your Conferring Toolkit?You understand the POWER of conferring with students during Writer’s Workshop. You are ready to begin.…
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Starting the Year off on the Right Foot
READ MORE →: Starting the Year off on the Right FootI’m sure you are like me, and cannot believe that it is already half-way through July.…
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How do I Choose Who to Confer With?
READ MORE →: How do I Choose Who to Confer With?In my primary classroom, we have non-negotiables. These are decisions that don’t have to be made, but…
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Why I Don’t Like Starting the Year off with Narratives
READ MORE →: Why I Don’t Like Starting the Year off with NarrativesMost of us are on summer break. Even though our minds should be resting and relaxing…
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Reflection Time: Bringing it all Back Together
READ MORE →: Reflection Time: Bringing it all Back TogetherYou’ve taught your mini-lesson. Check. You’ve modeled for your students through a mentor text or your…
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Writing Stations Develop a Classroom Community
READ MORE →: Writing Stations Develop a Classroom CommunityI have been asked so many times over the years, “How do you get your students…
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Teaching the Writer, Not Just the Writing
READ MORE →: Teaching the Writer, Not Just the WritingEvery day, every week, every month, every year…I heard the same statements. Over and over again. …
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Power of Conferring
READ MORE →: Power of ConferringMy first memories of conferring include preparing my conferring binder. It was a crisp white binder.…