Writing. It’s thinking. It’s planning. It’s research. It’s design. It’s everything about being a digital learner, and more for connected learners. If you aren’t sure what that means, visit the National Writing Project’s Digital Is community, DML’s Connected Learning site, the Connected Learning blog, the Connected Learning Mooc, follow the Twitter hashtag #clmooc. The many members […]
Read to Write
Writing. It happens because writers know stuff. Think of yourself as a writer. You know stuff because you are aware — you observe. People. Kids. Dogs. Cats. Picnics. A flower growing. The herbs that aren’t. A laugh. A cry. And all the reasons why. You immerse in TV, movies, news, and books. Yes. Books. Enjoy […]
Now Playing: Vocabulary Movies of Literary Mood
When it comes to the vocabulary of literary mood, my 8th graders (every year) arrive vocabulary poor. I can only hear about the mood being “happy” or “sad” for so long before I start feeling vocabulary starved! So this year, before I ever asked a student about the mood of a text, I asked them […]
Let them Write !
I love to write. I love to see the words appear on the page, paving an image or dusting off a memory for the reader. But I had no idea how much fun it would be to create a whole new world. I’m literally creating something from nothing, a world that did not exist now […]
Six Personalized Processes
What processes do your students follow, and how do you guide them in another “hard fun” of writing?
Summer Reads and Writes
Writing is Hard, Fun Work.
Why is writing “hard fun”?
Why is writing “hard fun?”
Welcome !
A group of educators who love words and love teaching kids to become wordsmiths join together to share…