Tag: Literacy

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Conversations About Problems and Solutions

Both of my grandfathers were farmers in Upstate New York which means that for me barns should be red and…

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RPGs and Social Contracts

What’s New? More than a year into using social contracts to help my writers better understand the reader-writer contract and…

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Triangle Power

The triangle is the strongest shape, capable of holding its shape, having a strongbase, and providing immense support. Some of the…

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This I Believe: Using games to teach writing rocks

What’s New? This week I will kick off my fifth iteration of using games to teach writing and I continue…

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Logbooks and #Ungrading: Creating a writing studio

What’s Really New? Eighteen months later and I think I’m due for another theory of the case explaining my pedagogy…

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What If We Told the Story of Our Values

What’s New? This year I kept the same structure for my What If Unit but switched in some new poems…