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VerseDay: A Valentine Gift for You
Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m not one for jewelry and fancy dinners. But I am a big fan of books. On one of my first Valentine’s Days with my husband, I asked him for a gigantic print dictionary. He was leery. I was thrilled! So my Valentine gift to you…
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Mentor Text Lesson: Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
By day, I’m a teacher. The thing I love to teach the most is writing (no surprise there). I love using mentor texts–really awesome literature to serve as a model for student writing. In the next few months, there will be more to come on mentor texts including some…
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Making Time to Write Monday: If You Only Have 15 Minutes
I am a teacher by day. It just hit me this week that I think teaching has forced me to master efficiency. On any given day, I typically have between 0 minutes-60 minutes of planning time. The average is 30-50 minutes. However, there are many days that I’m lucky…