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Science Writing…For Kids!
Image via https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org Sodium Polyacrylate In science, my 4th graders are learning about the Law of Conservation of Matter after about a week of reviewing ideas around solids,...
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First Writing Moves of the School Year
In Brene Brown’s book, Gifts of Imperfection, she claims “80% of the people she interviewed had experienced shame in school.” Let us this summer commit to our classrooms being a place where writing...
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First Writing Moves of the School Year: PART 2 (Storytelling)
Starting the Year off Write I’ll never forget my 6th grade teacher who contacted my parents because she believed that I had plagiarized a poem… her reasoning- no 11 year old could write a poem that...
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The Self-Introduction in Writing
Photo by Alex Guillaume on Unsplash When students are asked to introduce themselves in writing, it can be difficult figuring out the best way to stage this encounter between self and stranger, writer...
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Sparking Writing with Photography
How looking through a lens might inspire writing? When I go to my favorite park it is littered with people under the age of 18 making videos and taking photos of each other. When I was a student we...
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Writing into the Eclipse
There are so many wonderful eclipse resources out there but this month I wanted to put a resource in your hands of some pretty beautiful writing that you can invite in your own classroom. Being...
View ArticleWhy Mentor Text Work Is Hard for ELLs
Have you watched The Diary of a Song Series by The New York Times? It’s one of the many things the NYT does to break down and demystify behind-the-scenes in art. I love all things process and enjoy...
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Leaping into the Figurative
This is why I love the leap into non-literal sense making that is Nancy WIlliard’s poem “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him.” Each of the questions are lovely and from a child’s mind...
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Writing Inspired by Nature
Know what time it is? Not only most of our favorite season, autumn. But also my favorite Writing Project event of the year, Write Out. Maybe you have heard of it? Moving Writer’s is teaming up with...
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A Music Memoir Unit Remix
Oct 8 2024 Ashley Anderson Source Shock-tober is just as much a thing for teachers as it is for students. I don’t know where y’alls students are, but mine are struggling. Struggling not only to make...
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