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DIY Literacy, Chapters 3 & 4
In their recently published book, DIY Literacy, Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts guide teachers in the development and practice of four literacy tools that they claim will help students recall and apply the lessons we’ve taught in the classroom – repertoire and process charts, demonstration notebooks, micro-progressions and bookmarks. In particular, they pose the following questions: “How can I Read more
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DIY Literacy #CyberPD Book Study – Chapters One, Two and the Bonus Chapter
I have a confession to make: I almost didn’t buy this book. I kept thinking that it’s just about making charts, so what is the big deal? However, since many people I know and respect were talking about it, I caved in (after making several other book purchases) and decided to buy it. I’m glad Read more
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Footsteps
I subscribe to a word of the day prompt for writing. Although I haven’t done any writing responding to one of these daily prompts yet, I decided to try one for today’s SOL. I’m not necessarily a big fan of prompts for writing. However, sometimes they help to get me writing when I’m stuck, or Read more
Elisa Waingort 