InstaDigest Nov. 21-December 9

a free instadigest for EVERYONE!

If you are not yet a paid subscriber of the Moving Writers Community, you typically don’t get to dig through these informal semimonthly posts where I share what we did in class each day + pictures (and now videos!) of my class! These InstaDigests (so named because they are a recap of what I share on the Moving Writers Community Instagram) happen between monthly unit plans and monthly Q+A posts. Their purpose is to give you a glimpse of my real teacher life and also to show you how the pieces of my reading, writing, and vocabulary curricula fold together. How I use the time. How I (try to) squeeze it all in.

Here’s one for free. If you think this would be a helpful tool for your classroom planning and professional development, please consider subscribing to the Moving Writers Community, where you will receive every post, be able to participate in on-going monthly chats, and receive free professional development webinars and courses!

What We Did (My Daily Lesson Plans)

What It Looked Like (Come to My Classroom!)

Video!??! Yes! I made this video of my seventh graders and me chatting about a mini-mentor text for a four-part online course that Allison and I are releasing next week: 20ish Strategies for Helping Writers Do More with Mentor Texts! (You can pre-order at the link, and we’ll deliver it to you the day it is released!)

I thought you guys might enjoy seeing an in-living-color moment in my classroom, warts and all!

Here are a few pictures from the rest of our time together recently:

Next week, we’ll feature a December Q&A, and then we will be off until the first weekend in January, when I’ll have a new unit plan for you!