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- Schoolwide's Literacy Summer I...
Holiday INN JFK
Sunday, July 5 at 8:30am - Full-Day Literacy Workshop Series
Adria Hotel Conference Center
Friday, May 1 at 9:00am
Since I first started writing professionally, the word count feature on my word processing system has been my favorite tool. It can be almost a game to search through a manuscript looking for ways to say the same thing with fewer words...
What makes your students special? How do you help them use their special talents to inspire others through writing? In our final lesson of 2009, literacy consultant Ilene Cohn tells us how to transform talent into evocative writing that inspires happiness...
Dear Community, Subject: How do you revise and re-imagine? Free Lesson of ...
Dear Community, Subject: ...
I sent the following letter to the families of my students summarizing the recent parent workshop I gave but not everybody was able to attend. I post it in case anyone else has ever done parent workshops and would care to suggest ideas, directions, and other thoughts on parent education...
On Tuesday, October 20th, in honor of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) sponsored National Day on Writing, every classroom in my elementary school took a few minutes to make a list of all the different ways people use writing at home, at school, and in their jobs...
Recent trends in education have brought about the demise of some of the old ways of teaching. The method of skill and drill has become antiquated and even heretical in today's educational arena. Teaching vocabulary words by having students define them in a dictionary has been squashed by those w...
It's report card time again. I dislike report cards intensely. It is a passionate hate affair between report cards and me. It is the only thing I dislike about teaching and the only thing I didn't miss when I was a curriculum coordinator. Since returning to the classroom three yea...
Lesson Title: The Author’s Note in Personal Narratives Subject: Writing Workshop / Publishing Audience: 2–5 ...
Yetta Goodman on historical context and how kids learn best when they think more deeply. ...
