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The Structured Writing Teacher
@structuredwriting.bsky.social
📒Children's book author & middle school instructional coach. Creator of The Structured Writing Program. I help students get WILDLY engaged with their writing so we create WRITERS, not products.✍ #ela #EduSky https://linktr.ee/structuredwritingteache
I stopped using boxed writing curriculum and wrote my own program. It goes ALL IN on motivation techniques and explicit instruction. ✍️
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January 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I like using CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) for most of our history responses. Students learn about it in detail during their ELA class, then transfer that to history topics.
This one is from their Julius Caesar activity, using Classkick.
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November 23, 2024 at 1:00 AM
...keep their topic a "secret" in that first line. I'll paste a before and after. This is a 6th grade ELL student. By the end of the year, his confidence SOARED! :)
November 22, 2024 at 3:38 PM
During weekly writing workshops, my students choose a skill, a writing path, and a line length goal.
This student was having trouble deciding what to write about, so she chose path #2: Rants & Raves. This is a letter to her story. AMAZING! 😍
November 20, 2024 at 8:00 PM
✏️ I'm a HUGE fan of Constructivist pedagogy. It's the theory of instruction where students construct their own knowledge through experiences versus being lectured on abstract concepts. They learn by doing!
Here are some ways I use the approach in my writing program...
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November 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
The value of a timed, daily quick-write... students finally take risks and practice applying the skills. Huge! 😄
November 15, 2024 at 3:23 PM