Informational Writers Workshop This writers workshop series focuses on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See other posts within this series such as personal narrative, short story, poetry, and more here. This post is about crafting informational texts. Informational texts can live in …
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Poetry Writers Workshop This writers workshop series includes tutorials on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See the entire series here: personal narrative, short story, poetry, informational, personal argument, research-based argument, interviewing, descriptive paragraph, and comic. This post is about writing poetry. A …
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Short Story Writers Workshop This writers workshop series focuses on writing a particular mode and genre with students. See all the tutorials here: personal narrative, poetry, informational, personal arguments, research-based arguments, interviews, comic, and descriptive paragraph. This post is about short story. A short story …
Personal Narrative Writers Workshop This is one of several posts on teaching writers a particular mode and genre. In this post, I focus on the personal narrative, specifically in prose. A personal narrative is a story, but it can take the form of a photo …
It’s Friday morning. I am standing on a chair with Christmas lights in one hand and a magnetic clip in the other when a substitute teacher walks in the classroom. “Oh, do you share this room with Mrs. B.? I am her sub.” Startled, I …
“Good morning, everyone. Before we begin our Compose for 7, we are going to spend just a little time reflecting on how we are developing as a writing community,” I say. Students open their writing journals and write the date in the upper right corner …
“So the speaker is saying that she wishes her mother would have left her courage behind instead of her brooch.Can you relate this poem to another poem or story?” says Jonathan. “Yes, Andy*?” “This reminds me of a movie, Guardians of the Galaxy.” “What makes …
Most days in my junior high and college writing classes we begin with a quick write. I call them “Compose for 7’s” because we write for seven minutes, and our intention is to use that time to compose something that we can get into, explore, …
“So the speaker is saying that she wishes her mother would have left her courage behind instead of her brooch. Can you relate this poem to another poem or story?” says Jonathan. “Yes, Andy*?” “This reminds me of a movie, Guardians of the Galaxy.” “What …