Here is a list of classroom practices that I hope to try in my future classroom:
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Writer's notebook ideas:​
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100 things I love
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write in a public place
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write from a license plate
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lifting a line
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write about your name
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describe your world
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write to specific audiences
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3x3 poems
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clippings
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important person/animal to you
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favorite place
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look closely at an object
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scars
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read a photograph
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defining word
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'Where I'm From' poems
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Self-portrait from TAKR
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six word memoirs
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Using mentor texts during mini-lessons
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using memory chains to write​
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developing a "what if" story
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'I Wonder'
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'All the Small Poems'
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Generating writing ideas:​
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An outdoor writer's cafe (go outside and write what you hear, see, smell; find an object outside and pretend you are the object)
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inspire yourself with walks and books
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seed ideas (I've always wondered.., It's not fair that..)
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heart maps
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hand maps
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neighborhood maps
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inverted triangle-writing territories
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- Help students develop content and detail while writing:
- dipping into dialogue​
- appeal to the sense
- use anecdotes
- moving from here to there
- Peer & teacher feedback on student writing:
- CARE​
- TAG
- Baseline writing assessments:
- narratives​
- opinion
- informational
- Developing class anchor charts for personal narratives:
- what a personal narrative is​
- show/don't tell anchor chart example (huffelementary)
- how to show emotions and feelings through writing anchor chart (huffelementary)
- Teaching, exploring & creating poetry in the classroom:
- Living poetry museum​
- Living Anthology Project
- "What we say is poetry" bulletin board (listen for poetry in our daily talk)
- Observation poetry
- Six senses poem
- Wind Spark poem
- Haiku/Photoku
- Wonder Walk Invitation
- Concrete/Shape poem
- 'so much depends upon' poem
- Found poem (& from prose to poem)
- Blackout poetry
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