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How to Teach Reading and Writing Workshop from a Distance

How to Teach Reading and Writing Workshop from a Distance

by Amanda | Aug 2, 2020 | Back to School, Distance Learning, Podcast

  Amanda Write Now · How To Teach Reading And Writing Workshop From A Distance Many teachers are wondering, can I still teach reading and writing workshop from a distance? The quick answer is… absolutely! Whether you want to admit it or not, the current...
Distance Learning Community Building Activities for Middle and High School

Distance Learning Community Building Activities for Middle and High School

by Amanda | Jul 27, 2020 | Back to School, Distance Learning, Podcast

Amanda Write Now · 15 Community Building Distance Learning Activities Middle Schoolers Will LOVE! Students in our class need to feel that their unique voices, opinions, and experiences matter. In this article, you’ll get inspiration and ideas for distance...
Your First Mini Lesson of the School Year: How Workshop is Like Playing Fortnite Battle Royale

Your First Mini Lesson of the School Year: How Workshop is Like Playing Fortnite Battle Royale

by Amanda | Jul 14, 2019 | Back to School, Mini Lessons, Podcast

There are so many things we need to accomplish the first week of school. We need to get to the content but we also need to teach students about how our class will run and build relationships and community too. Now you may feel a bit overwhelmed at this point. Not to...
5 Fun Activities to do with Your Students the Day After Coming Back from a Long Break

5 Fun Activities to do with Your Students the Day After Coming Back from a Long Break

by Amanda | Dec 26, 2018 | Back to School, Holiday Writing, Make Writing Fun, Podcast

2.9kSharesShare Tweet Pin It Don’t have time to read? Listen to this post here…   Coming back to school after having two weeks off (or the summer off) can be really rough for students and teachers. The last thing anyone wants to do is...
5 Super Fun, Simple Games to Play with Your Class…Whenever!

5 Super Fun, Simple Games to Play with Your Class…Whenever!

by Amanda | Dec 21, 2018 | Back to School, End of the Year, Make Writing Fun, Secondary Teachers

1.6kSharesShare Tweet Pin It Sometimes we just need to have fun with our students and what better way than with simple classroom games? Having fun is important for many reasons some of which include: it builds community, it’s a stress reliever, it...
What I’m doing the very first day of school might surprise you…and why you should try it too.

What I’m doing the very first day of school might surprise you…and why you should try it too.

by Amanda | Aug 5, 2018 | Back to School, Management, Podcast

I let students socialize the first day of school. Read on to find out why… After reading this important article by Write On with Miss G (which I highly recommend you read), I thought back to my first day of school, last year. Here’s what’s written in...
10 Reasons Secondary Teachers Should Try Reading & Writing Workshop

10 Reasons Secondary Teachers Should Try Reading & Writing Workshop

by Amanda | Aug 2, 2018 | Back to School, Podcast, Secondary Teachers

Don’t have time to read this article? Listen on iTunes instead!  We all have our own curriculum, our own teaching teams, our own way of doing things but it’s summer vacation and time to ponder other options! This article is meant for secondary teachers who...
My Students Don’t Write During Writing

My Students Don’t Write During Writing

by Amanda | Jul 30, 2018 | Back to School, Featured Post, Management, Podcast, Writing Independence

Don’t have time to read all of this?!?! Listen below:) So, some of your students aren’t writing during writing? Maybe they are just sitting there staring off into space. Or maybe they are sneaking onto their phone, they’ll probably tell you they were...
Launching Writing Workshop: The First 14 Days

Launching Writing Workshop: The First 14 Days

by Amanda | Sep 5, 2017 | Back to School, Management, Mini Lessons, Podcast, Writing Units

      This article outlines exactly what I did to launch both reading and writing workshop in my classroom. If you are an English teacher wanting to teach using the writing and reading workshop model, then this post is exactly what you’ve been...
10 Ways to Use PowToon in the English Classroom

10 Ways to Use PowToon in the English Classroom

by Amanda | Jul 30, 2017 | Back to School, Featured Post, Technology, Videos

PowToon is a fun and fairly easy video creation tool for teachers and students. The company already has an excellent blog post about how teachers can utilize this tool in their classrooms here. This blog post is about how students can use PowToon for ten writing and...
The Ultimate Writing Workshop Routines Guide

The Ultimate Writing Workshop Routines Guide

by Amanda | Jul 17, 2017 | Back to School, Management, Podcast, Routines

Every teacher on the planet knows that the first weeks of school are all about routines, routines, routines and more routines. But, over time so many routines in our classrooms go overlooked. This guide discusses five important components of the workshop schedule...

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