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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Writing is Thinking has been featured online by the Literacy Design Collaborative. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. And the U.S. Department of Education. Literacy Design Collaborative News for 7/30/2015. Teaching: The Greatest Profession. By Christina Kostaras on Jul 27, 2015 08:00 pm. Last week at the SREB Conference. In Atlanta, Literacy Design Collaborative ( LDC. Lead and Learn Fellows. Jenn Dines of the...

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Writing Is Thinking Book Review: How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Writing Is Thinking Book Review: How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish. July 31, 2015. July 31, 2015. The bright dresses, patterned with tropical flowers, flowing and gliding from place to place on the parquet tiles, the conversation from each table vibrant and lithe, the children watching from the courtyard windows angling to hear the voices of their mothers, so ordinating in the daytime, punctuating the night with word...

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Writing Is Thinking Creates Rigorous Writing Opportunities for ELLs and Students with Disabilities. | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Writing Is Thinking Creates Rigorous Writing Opportunities for ELLs and Students with Disabilities. June 23, 2015. June 24, 2015. The following is Jennifer Dines’s elaborated speech for the WritingisThinking.org Leadership Lab hosted by Teach to Lead. The US Department of Education. And the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. On Friday, June 26th, 2015. 8221; – Linda Christensen. I want to talk to you today about Nadira Abdira...

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Christina Kostaras | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Daily Writing to Deepen Math Understanding. April 24, 2016. April 24, 2016. My ELD level 1 and 2 students took the. Do Now: Write a letter to your little brother/sister/cousin explaining what mean is. What is it? How do you find it? Draw an example to help further explain your thinking. 10 hands shoot up in the air. Missy, this is too hard! Y si yo no tengo hermanito o hermanita o prima? How do I answer? 10 hands shoot up in the air. Write a ...

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Katharine Atkins-Pattenson | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Dear PenPal: Reading Conversations Across Boston. March 6, 2016. March 6, 2016. Post 1: The Preparation. The first goal we set was. Building a community of readers across our city. Authentic accountability for independent reading. Individualized nature of letter writing. And how we want kids to value the letter because it is something that another person put time into that was created just for them. This will augment engagement and make f...

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Ben Leddy | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Using Songwriting in the Classroom. May 28, 2015. May 29, 2015. It’s eight in the morning, and every student is singing. Across the classroom and in the hallways, groups of students are dancing, arguing, laughing. Over the last twenty-four hours, they have practiced at school, at each other’s houses, even over video chat. Soon, they will perform original songs for the class. What topic inspired such fervor? How did it go? The project will tak...

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Students Benefit from Writing is Thinking. | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Students Benefit from Writing is Thinking. June 23, 2015. June 23, 2015. The following is Katharine Atkins-Pattenson’s elaborated speech for the WritingisThinking.org Leadership Lab hosted by Teach to Lead. The US Department of Education. And the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. On Friday, June 26th, 2015. Tell me your story. What if others told it for you and you were never given the chance? Graders spend the year explorin...

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Creating 8 Page ‘Zines with 5th Grade Students. October 24, 2016. October 24, 2016. As anyones who grew up in the 90’s knows, ‘zines (handmade mini-magazines) are the epitome of cool. And thanks to Boston Public Schools teacher Christine Beggan, an incredibly cool group of Gardner Pilot Academy. Nerds is digging the ‘zine genre. Cool Nerds in History. Caricaturist Eva M. profiles six different nerds. Nerd Wars in History. In chapters. She...

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Why Writing Is Thinking Works for Teachers and Students | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Why Writing Is Thinking Works for Teachers and Students. July 23, 2015. I am an English/language arts teacher. A teacher of writing. But no teacher taught me how to write. My dad did. When I was little, he would sit at the computer, and I would sit next to him. I would read what I had written by hand, and he would type it into the computer. And we would go over it together and make it better. On a particularly rough day, I asked him to stay a...

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Students Helping Students: Peer Evaluation and Feedback in the Classroom | Writing Is Thinking

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Writing Across the Curriculum for Middle School ELLs and SWDs. Students Helping Students: Peer Evaluation and Feedback in the Classroom. May 14, 2015. May 14, 2015. Sentence starters, I created a Peer Evaluation Protocol. For our middle school students. My colleagues who teach K-5 at the Gardner Pilot Academy adapted the Peer Evaluation Protocol to make an elementary friendly Peer Evaluation Protocol. 8221; The answer is always an overwhelming “YES! Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning o...