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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: April 2013
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. April 9, 2013. Teachers are already up to their ears in tweaking and re-designing curriculum, staying on top of legalese, not to mention paperwork extraordinaire, plus technology integration and all the inservices that. Gives rise to. Then along come the Common Core State Standards. Cookie Cutters, anyone? The new writing terminology, which I see leaking into my student's HW that they bring me, is:. CLAIM / EVIDENCE / SUPPORT.
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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: July 2013
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. July 18, 2013. Is there a Pause Button? My Blog is Not Dead! I had a pause button, aka a 3-month, Adele-addicted. Divorce fog hiatus. (And I tell my students not to go overboard writing odd strings of adjectives! Slid into a shadow of grief and shred of his former self in the last year and finally said he could not "engage" anymore. I keep coming back to the 5 W's, sentence-level work, Show Don't Tell drills, and just creatin...
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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: February 2014
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. February 16, 2014. A New Species of Thesis: Delayed Thesis, Equation Thesis, and Anti-thesis. This high school girl in the blog post has a paper due that requires a " delayed thesis. Which simply means that she has to write some introductory gobbledy gook and then.drum roll: the final thesis statement in the first paragraph. Nothing new under the sun there, except that I have never heard that term. How might we create the con...
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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: June 2014
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. June 19, 2014. Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: Common Core. Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: Common Core. Okay, outta the way with my accusatory statements about Common Core and then we can get on to other topics in another blog post. I co. June 15, 2014. Okay, outta the way with my accusatory statements about Common Core and then we can get on to other topics in another blog post. B) I like to fi...
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Pinball Cognition: May 2011
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Thursday, May 5, 2011. Out With The Old, In With The New! So those of you who have read posts from me before may be a little confused. Where have all the old posts gone? I deleted them, I'm starting over. I do the same thing with diaries and journals at home. Whenever I begin again in a notebook, I rip out all of the old pages. As you can imagine, I've learned to only buy coil notebooks. It just makes sense. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am first, a student of life. Formally, I am a Bachelor of Educa...
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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: Homework Strategies for Making Life Easier for ADHD Kids (and their parents)
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. August 15, 2014. Homework Strategies for Making Life Easier for ADHD Kids (and their parents). IMPACT ADHD: Helping Parents Help Kids. Ome work. Those two words seem mismatched. Home is where you can chill, be yourself, and get a little break from “work.” And yet h. Omework is what every child dreads. And parents, too! So who can blame kids. For not wanting to do their homework? Traction during the lesson,. Allow your childre...
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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: February 2013
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. February 1, 2013. Reading Like a Writer; Writing Like a Reader? Mayan Calendar Prophecies did not destroy humanity. Shock and Numbness and then a thawing into rage about the Connecticut shootings. Fine-tuning my submission to the talented and determined moms at IMPACT ADD:. Using “The Magic of 3” to Enhance Writing Skills for Kids. They kept saying I have to winnow it down because the audience is overwhelmed parents. Who writ...
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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: December 2012
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. December 7, 2012. This week I practiced writing essays for entry applications to private high schools. 3 different 8th Graders. 9 different schools between the 3 of them. They were not grateful to be applying to expensive schools that are going to stretch their thinking and assign harder writing than the entry essays. How do I explain that tuition is equivalent or higher to the poverty level income of a family of 4? Pencils c...
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Taming the Octopus - The Many Arms of Writing: August 2012
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Teaching Writing - A voice from the trenches, for People, Parents and Teachers. August 11, 2012. The Pendulum of Parenting. Is a subject which I think I know a lot about, yet I have no direct biological experience of. Just steparenting. And being a nanny in my 20's. It so happens that the little girl in my charge has grown up now and tracked her nanny down. She still lives in Seattle and we are connected. Okay time for an "Awwww! Topic comes up in our. Are curious about how to improve as people,. Their p...
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