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Q&A: How Can We Assess Students' Reading Needs + Target Our Instruction?

InstaDigest: What It Looked Like

InstaDigest: What We Did

November Unit: Self-Paced Personal Essay

November Community Chat

A Flash-Workshop for Halloween: 2-Sentence Horror Stories

InstaDigest- Oct 11 and Oct 22

October Q+A: I Need a BREAK

InstaDigest part II: September 27-October 4

InstaDigest part I: September 27-October 4

October Community Chat

October Unit: A Study of Prompt-Based Writing

InstaDigest PART TWO: Sept. 13-24

InstaDigest PART ONE : September 13-24

September Q+A: What to Do About Timed, On-Demand Writing?

InstaDigest: August 30-September 10 (Part I)

InstaDigest PART 2 (8/30-9/10)

September Unit: Discussing Texts, Finding Text Evidence, and Articulating Themes in Literary Salons

September Community Chat

InstaDigest: Aug. 16-Aug 27

Amplify Students' Word-Work This Year Through Our Vocabulary PLC

Q&A: Establishing Writing Groups + Partnerships

Pre-Service + First Year Teachers Join the Moving Writers Community FREE

Unit Plan: One Great Sentence

Free PD + an Invite to My Daily Plans

August 2021 Community Chat

Unit Plan: Narrative Scenes

Issue 11: What I Learned This Year + A Planning Pack for Big Picture Thinking About Next Year

A Gift + An Invitation to Take the Summer OFF.

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Q+A: What's Next for Inside the Blended Workshop in the 2021-2022 School Year?

The Secret to a Class that Is Structured But FEELS Unstructured + Creative

Unit Plan: Macbeth (or any Shakespeare play)

Issue 10: 6 Ideas for Wrapping Up a Year Like No Other

Strategies for Moving Writers Toward Independence

Poetry + Grammar = Love

Q+A: How Do You Develop Your Own Reading Strategies + Turn Them Into Reading Responses?

Tried Language Field Guides? I'd Love to Hear from You!

Building Reading Units Made of Skills (and my Hamilton unit)

What my students do when they've finished a whole-class novel early...

Issue 09: 10+ Ideas for Mini-Units to Get You Through Spring

Q+A: Professional Self-Care + Staying Engaged in a Job That Doesn't Love You Back

Got a Reading Response Category? Share it here!

Unit Plan: Analytical Essay

Conferring With Writers in a Pandemic + Meaningful Vocabulary Instruction in 30-minutes a Week

Issue 08: Authentic, Adaptable Research Writing

Q+A: How Do You Plan for a Year?

A Fast-and-Furious Unit to Introduce Opinion Writing

Issue 07: Using Pockets of Time for Meaningful Learning

January Chat Takeaways + Recording

What's NEXT for Inside the Blended Workshop?

Live Chat on Sunday! What do you want to talk about?

Filling Those Little Pockets of Time with Meaningful Learning + Free, Virtual PD

Move Your Readers + Writers With Virtual PD This Winter

Q + A: How to Choose the Skills + Strategies You Teach in Each Unit

What students can really do with collaborative, scaffolded essay experiences

How & Why to Lead Students Through Scaffolded, Collaborative Essays (with a character analysis essay mini-unit)

Issue 06.2: The Best Way to Teach Grammar - No Matter Where You + Your Students Are

Issue 06.1: Supporting Students' Reflection Mid-Year