When students are writing explanations, or explanatory essays, they often need to justify their thoughts and ideas. Here is a page where I explain a couple of ideas and give a resource from my book, The Big Book of Literacy Tasks. Ideas for Justifying Happy Teaching,...
Last week I tweeted that one of my doctoral students was giving a presentation in class using some of the material from my new book, The Big Book of Literacy Tasks. I thought I would share the lesson she was using to teach her colleagues in the doctoral course. Sara...
It’s summer, but we are thinking about getting the classroom ready, and those first weeks of school. What will I teach the first day? The first week? It’s so easy to get caught up in what we are going to present—when the truth is, it’s more powerful to envision what...
