Are you looking for a simple, low-maintenance writing center that also engages your students? Yeah, I was too and found NOTHING that held my students’ attention all year long. 1. Use it to launch your personal narrative unit. Starting the year off with personal narratives for writing workshop is the BEST. Why? Because they get to write about what…
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If you follow me on Instagram (@ThePinspiredTeacher) you’ll know that I got the shock of my life back in April and was asked to teach 2nd grade in a new district! While this was the best news EVER, my blogging life came to a screeching halt. I immediately began to prepare for the rounds of interviews, update my resume and…
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This is part two of my textual evidence blog post series, click here to read part one. You can also watch the video if you are looking for a quick summary of how I teach textual evidence with “A Poof of Proof” motivational tools: We continued learning the “FAIRY” method {created by the “proof fairy,” of course ;)}. Friday and…
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If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been…I have spent the past four months researching all things textual evidence. What started with a small idea continued to grow, and grow, and grow until it became this mega toolbox full of goodies for getting students motivated and excited about citing and referring to textual evidence. I knew I had to do…
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I’ve been one busy gal lately and now that I am on spring break I finally have a moment to catch y’all up to speed! As you may have seen on my Instagram, I recently met up with a whole bunch of fabulous teacher-bloggers-Instagrammers at the Cheesecake Factory. Tami from the blog Blessed In First organized the event and made…
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