fun w/ reading and writing

Yesterday, two amazing 7th graders visited and assisted me in my writing classroom. Their school district had the day off from school and th...

As I headed to the new inside venue for the National Book Festival on Saturday, I knew I was there when I saw this very large sign on the si...

Annie - Argument Work, today with Nonfiction! Annie pointed out that Bend 3 of this Unit has a student choose a topic. She pointed out that...

Annie - Argument Essay A suggested classroom visual to have during this unit: 3 posters (for/against/undecided). As he unit topic is first...

Annie - Literary Essay / Research Argument Essay  We first spent time orally rehearsing our draft of our Literary Essay and then we did a f...