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My Word Study Academy Starts June 28th!
Enrollment is now open for my Word Study Academy Short Course! Beginning June 28th @ 7pm EST. - Live in Zoom ENROLL ME !…
Read issue →Gamify Your Instruction with Tone Word Yahtzee!
I absolutely love it when my students use precise and exact Tier II level words when they identify a text's tone. But as…
Read issue →The Summer Short Course Series
You are going to LOVE my Teach it "Write" Summer Short Course Series! I've created the Summer Short Course Series to…
Read issue →SEL Meets Up With Eeyore & Synthesis
As I begin to wrap up this academic year and make plans for the next, I am conjuring ways to incorporate some SEL…
Read issue →Free Webinar (Constructing Synthesis)
The other week I extended a collective invitation to collaboratively construct a synthesis unit around the following…
Read issue →Synthesis Is Like Juggling 7 Flaming Bowling Pins
As many of you know, I moderate a Facebook group (Teachers Making Better Writers) as well as curate a YouTube channel…
Read issue →Gamifying the Teaching of Voice, Rhythm, Flow
Most of our struggling and emerging writers completely overuse the short-simple-declarative sentence. As composition…
Read issue →The Vocabulary Void
At the risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon bemoaning about the way things have changed over the years, let me just…
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