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Write About@mywriteabout
20 Jun 2017
No matter your content area, we all teach literacy. #EdChat #ELAchat via @shfarnsworth
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Here is a list of ten different end-of-the-year activities that you can do remotely with your students. thedaringenglishteacher.com/ā€¦ #EdChat #RemoteTeaching
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Writing about Science? Yes please! What a great way to implement and teach specific writing skills. ww2.kqed.org/education/2017/ā€¦ #ScienceChat

Blogging in the Science Classroom | KQED

I am a 5th and 8th-grade science teacher and at the start of the 2013 school year, I wondered if I could get my students to become productive scientific writers.Ā To find out, I introduced my students...

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Two literacy experts offer strategies for helping elementary and middle school students understand how to use and synthesize different sources for research. edutopia.org/article/teachinā€¦ #ELAchat #EngChat

Teaching Young Students How to Use Multiple Sources

Two literacy experts offer strategies for helping elementary and middle school students understand how to use and synthesize different sources for research.

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A low-key, ungraded way to learn about students as individuals. edutopia.org/article/buildinā€¦

Building Relationships Through Letter Writing

Corresponding with students via snail mail is a good way for teachers to foster trust anytimeā€”but especially when everyone is physically distanced.

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"Without further ado, here are my 3 favorite websites for finding nonfiction articles that are (1) appropriate (2) rigorous and (3) interesting." brownbagteacher.com/finding-ā€¦ #ELAchat #5thChat

Finding Nonfiction Articles for Middle Grades - The Brown Bag Teacher

Today I am sharing with you one of my great frustrations about 5th gradeā€¦the lack of resources. We are a curriculum-free school for reading and writing, so in August I walked into a resource-empty...

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No matter your content area, students can use Write About to start, revise, and publish their writing as well as interact with classmates! #EdChat #ELAchat
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ā€œThose who tell the stories rule the world.ā€ cultofpedagogy.com/narrativeā€¦ #ELAchat #EngChat

A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing | Cult of Pedagogy

The ability to tell a good story is one of the things that makes human beings extraordinary. Here's the process I used to teach my own students how to do it.

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"It is important for students to have opportunities for authentic and respectful dialogue. It is especially important for classrooms to build spaces for diverse voices." twowritingteachers.org/2020/ā€¦

Building Space forĀ Voice

On a drive with my eldest son a few days ago, I turned to ask him, ā€œHave you ever felt racism?ā€Ā  My sons are 21 and 24 years old. We are brown. It is what most people assume upon noticing our ā€¦

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Featured #WritingIdea: What is more important to you: a society built on justice or mercy? writeabout.com/ideas/what-isā€¦ #EdChat #ELAchat #EngChat
3 Tips for Humanizing Digital Pedagogy via @edutopia edutopia.org/article/3-tips-ā€¦

3 Tips for Humanizing Digital Pedagogy

An elementary teacher who has worked for an edtechĀ start-up argues that itā€™sĀ important nowā€”with teachers and students working separatelyā€”to promote reflection and social connection as tools for...

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20 May 2021
I love @mywriteabout . Right now I have a student writing ā€œHow to Make Street Cornā€ and another working on ā€œA Crayfish Poemā€.
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"In a matter of seconds, the whole room had erupted, a huge hysterical bowl of popcorn, exploding all around me, and I couldnā€™t find my way out." cultofpedagogy.com/student-tā€¦ #EdChat #ELAchat

When Students Won't Stop Talking | Cult of Pedagogy

What they don't teach us in education courses is just how freaking much students talk, and how hard it can be to quiet them down. Help is on the way.

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Use this mini-lesson to help students use vocabulary words to demonstrate a real world understanding of them. writeabouthelp.zendesk.com/hā€¦ #ELAchat #ElemChat
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"For the first time as a young teacher, I realized the power of unleashing studentsā€™ experiences in a writing class. This was about more than craft." ncte.org/blog/2019/11/the-poā€¦ #ELAchat #EngChat

The Power of Memoir: Unleashing Studentsā€™ Experiences

Writing in the memoir genre has the power to unleash student experiences.

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Giving Peer Feedback Helps Writers Grow: Tips for showing students how to give each other writing feedback, which benefits both the receiver and the giver. edutopia.org/article/giving-ā€¦ #TeachWriting

Giving Peer Feedback Helps Writers Grow

Tips for showing students how to give each other writing feedback, which benefits both the receiver and the giver.

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Teaching Fact vs. Opinion: Tips, Activities, and Resources hmhco.com/blog/teaching-factā€¦ #ELAchat

How to Teach the Difference Between Factual and

Get tips for teaching fact versus opinion with these resources, insights, and activities from journalist and educator Esther Wojcicki.

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As long as I have an option, I will always teach narrative writing because I see a great value in it. Narrative writing is the most undervalued element of the ELA classroom. jessicamoman.blogspot.com/20ā€¦ #ELAchat @ms_j_gilbert
Your Child Has Nightly Reading Homework. What Should YOU be doing? @WiseOwlFactory cultofpedagogy.com/reading-hā€¦ #ELAchat

Your child has nightly reading homework. What should YOU should be doing? | Cult of Pedagogy

Your child has been assigned to read every night for homework. What should you be doing to make sure this reading benefits the child the most?

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We talk a lot. We'd like to hear from you! What are your students writing about or working on this quarter? We want to hear all about it! Big breakthroughs, learning experiences, things you weren't expecting to happen with your unit -- all of it! #EdChat #ELAchat #EngChat
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Beautifully said, @PathstoLiteracy #ELAchat #EngChat #EdChat
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