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    Close the Year with Joyful Writing

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    Surveying Growth in Your Writing Classroom

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    Keep Calm And Reflect On Your Teaching

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    How to Address Back-to-School Fears

    Social-Emotional Intelligence: 
    Fear
    Empathy
    Social-Emotional Learning

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    Create Community in Your Classroom

    Social-Emotional Intelligence: 
    SEL
    Mindfulness
    Team Building

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    Create Classroom Discussions Online

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing
    Reading
    Writing to Learn
    Prewriting

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    6 Ways to Scaffold Writing for ELLs

    English Language Arts: 
    Paragraphs
    Sentences
    Fluid Sentences
    Prewriting
    Writing

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    Inquire About Your Community

    21st Century Skills: 
    Inquiry Process
    Planning
    Questioning
    Researching
    Creating
    Improving
    Visual Literacy
    Web Project

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    5 Fun Thanksgiving Writing Prompts

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing
    Writing Process
    Ideas
    Prewriting

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    How to Reach Reluctant Writers

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    Launch Into Argument Writing

    English Language Arts: 
    Prewriting
    Thesis Statement
    Writing
    Writing Process

    Blog Post

    8 Mindful Writing Habits (and 16 Prompts!)

    English Language Arts: 
    Writing Process
    Writing
    21st Century Skills: 
    Creative Thinking
    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking
    Questioning
    Researching
    Creating

    Blog Post

    Bend the Rules to Teach the Rules

    English Language Arts: 
    Grammar
    Sentence Fragments
    Fragments
    Sentence
    Fluid Sentences
    Sentences

    Blog Post

    Take Note of Podcasts

    English Language Arts: 
    Logical Organization
    21st Century Skills: 
    Media Literacy
    Listening
    Technology Literacy
    Information Literacy

    Blog Post

    Eyes on Editing

    English Language Arts: 
    Editing
    Proofreading
    Grammar
    Correct Conventions
    Spelling
    Punctuation
    End Punctuation
    Capitalization
    Sentences

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    Focus on Freewriting

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    Crazy Over Captions

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    Gauge Your Students' Grammar

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    Create a Lively Reader Response

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    Best Practices for Writing Conferences

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    How to Evaluate Media

    English Language Arts: 
    Reading
    21st Century Skills: 
    Media Literacy
    Information Literacy
    Reading

    Blog Post

    Sandwich Your Quotations

    English Language Arts: 
    Quotation Marks
    Writing
    21st Century Skills: 
    Researching

    Blog Post

    Make a Reading-Writing Connection

    English Language Arts: 
    Reading
    Writing
    Logical Organization
    Writing Process
    21st Century Skills: 
    Reading
    Reading to Learn

    Blog Post

    Pitch Your Project!

    English Language Arts: 
    Speaking
    Listening
    Prewriting
    21st Century Skills: 
    Speaking
    Listening
    Researching

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