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- Wow! This group of middle school writers are unbelievable! producing some great pieces. Tomorrow will be fun! Sad it is the last day. 12 hours ago
- Middle School Writing Tech Camp campers working hard.Students completing stories, info pieces, Animoto vids, Goanimate cartoons,etc. 17 hours ago
- Another successful day @chippewariverwp MS tech camp. Campers worked on their informational and narrative pieces today. #hardworkers 1 day ago
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The Power and Questions of Revision
Just over a month ago I was asked to write a chapter for a book dealing with Technology and writing. Another colleague and I had originally submitted a proposal for the book and our piece was accepted for a different project … Continue reading
Just Hanging Out…and Learning
This week has been crazy to say the least. On the other hand, it has been phenomenal! Tuesday, my 2nd hour seventh grade class began an adventure I felt was worth taking. For quite some time a writing project colleague … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, Connected Learning, Digital Citizenship, Education, Middle School Teaching, National Writing Project, teaching, Technology, technology in the classroom, Writing
Tagged CCSS, Collaboration, Common Core Standards, Communication skills, Connected Classrooms, Connected Learning, Digital writing, Education, going digital, Google Hangout, middle school language arts, middle school students, middle school writing, national writing project, nwp, Published writing, teaching, technology in the classroom, writing, Youth Voices
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Ode to the Narrative.
I am not sure if it is an appropriate title or not, but I just completed the first of four Google Hangouts I am having this week. I met with CRWP colleagues tonight in our first Monday book club chat. … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, Education, Middle School Teaching, teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged ACT argumentative writing., CCSS, curriculum. The art of narrative writing., high school writing, Narrative writing, narrative writing and the common core standards, narratives at the high school level, Smarter Balanced Assessment, writing
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Why Twitter is Valuable in the Classroom
Have you ever looked at the idea of teaching informational writing and thought to yourself it was going to be a struggle to motivate your students? I honestly used to dread teaching any type of informational writing to my students. … Continue reading
Transitioning from Narrative to Informational
Pushing forward this time of year seems to be a slow process and transitioning from narrative to informational reading and writing can be a rather challenging task with 7th and 8th graders. Previously my students just completed a 12 week … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Middle School Teaching, Reading, teaching, Writing
Tagged CCSS, Common Core Standards, Facebook, informational, Jeff Anderson, Kelly Gallagher, MCTE, middle school, middle school reading and writing, middle school students, middle school teachers, narrative, NCTE, reading, readwritethink, T-charts, Teaching Units, Units, writing
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Rubrics, Guidelines, or Checklists
It is amazing how much I can miss writing my blog. I am finally going to be able to get back to doing my brain purges here on the Hyler 1 blog. I apologize once again to my readers for … Continue reading
Teaching Bad Writing Habits = Bad Writing
It has been almost a month since I have written for my blog. Something had to give with grading papers, writing a book, and trying to spend time with my kids. So, my blog took a back seat while I … Continue reading
Posted in Middle School Teaching, teaching, Writing
Tagged bad writing, bad writing skills, confronting colleagues, elementary writing habits, making middle shoolers better writers, middle school writing, poor writing habits, topic sentences, wrap-up sentences, writing, writing habits for students. 7th and 8th grade writing, writing skills
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So Much to do, so Little Time
The first week of school is over and it has gone by extremely fast. Friday was nothing but a blur. I am very grateful we decided to change our homebase from 40 minutes each day to 18 minutes every other … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing, Middle School Teaching, Reading, technology in the classroom, Common Core State Standards, Technology
Tagged reading, writing, Common Core, CCSS, research, Celly, Texting in the classroom, Middle School Reading, middle school writing, middle school language arts, vocabulary, 7th grade, 8th grade, middle school homebase or advisory, dictionary.com, apps
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Narrative Reading and Writing
After giving my 7th/8th graders a small grammar pre-test, I launched my first unit for the year. When examining the Common Core standards I decided to launch a narrative unit first. Generally speaking, students really enjoy writing narrative pieces and … Continue reading
Posted in teaching, Writing, Middle School Teaching, Reading, technology in the classroom, Common Core State Standards, Education, Technology
Tagged reading, writing, standards, CCSS, Narrative writing, Schoology, 6 word memoirs, The Common Core Standards, The Freedom Writers, Mentor text, Mastery Connect App, memoirs, narrative reading
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