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    Blog Post

    What does your PLN look like?

    21st Century Skills: 
    Learning Skills
    Life Skills
    Communicating
    Collaborating
    Social Skills
    Initiative
    Flexibility
    Productivity
    Reading
    Writing
    Speaking
    Listening

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    Planning Less, Learning More

    21st Century Skills: 
    Inquiry Process
    Building Vocabulary

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    Writing Advice from Favorite Authors

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing

    Blog Post

    9 Ways to Empower Reluctant Writers

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    Mapping Your Writing Process

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing Process
    Prewriting
    Writing
    Revising
    Editing

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    Unifying Paragraphs

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing Process
    Revising
    Paragraphs

    Minilesson

    Analyzing the Medium of a Message

    Improve students' media literacy.

    Blog Post

    Developing Fluent Readers

    English Language Arts: 
    Reading
    21st Century Skills: 
    Reading

    Blog Post

    Cures for Vague Writing

    English Language Arts: 
    Revising
    Noun
    Style
    Strong Ideas

    Blog Post

    Writing to Celebrate Women's History

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing
    Writing to Learn

    Blog Post

    Awaken Creativity—and Students

    21st Century Skills: 
    Creative Thinking
    Problem Solving

    Blog Post

    Solutions for Choppy Writing

    English Language Arts: 
    Fluid Sentences
    Sentences
    Style
    Revising

    Blog Post

    Teaching Revision Strategies

    English Language Arts: 
    Revising
    Elaboration
    Writing Process

    Blog Post

    Support Students Through Trying Times

    Social-Emotional Intelligence: 
    Limbic System
    Cortex
    SEL
    Stress
    Mindfulness
    Self-Care
    Social-Emotional Learning

    Blog Post

    Dealing with Sadness in School

    Social-Emotional Intelligence: 
    Social-Emotional Learning
    SEL
    Emotion
    Sadness

    Blog Post

    Connect SEL to the Brain

    Social-Emotional Intelligence: 
    Brain Stem
    Cortex
    Limbic System
    Brain and Nervous System

    Student Writing Model

    Unique Wolves

    Sixth-grader Bryan wrote this report after visiting a wolf park in Battle Ground, Indiana.

    Level: 
    Grade 6
    Grade 7
    Grade 8
    Mode: 
    Research Writing
    Form: 
    Research Report
    Theme: 
    Animals
    Science
    Environment
    Nature

    Blog Post

    How to Scaffold Grammar Instruction

    English Language Arts: 
    Grammar
    Complex Sentences
    Commas
    Sentence Combining

    Blog Post

    Close the Year with Joyful Writing

    Blog Post

    Improve SEL Through Literature

    English Language Arts: 
    Reading
    Social-Emotional Intelligence: 
    Emotion
    Social-Emotional Learning

    Blog Post

    Surveying Growth in Your Writing Classroom

    Blog Post

    How to Give Good Grammar Feedback

    English Language Arts: 
    Grammar

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