Category: 6-8
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NCTE Comes to the CRWP: Literacies Before Technologies
On December 10, 2022, the Chippewa River Writing Project hosted a free continuity event: NCTE Comes to the CRWP. Teacher consultants from the CRWP who presented at the NCTE Annual Convention in November shared their presentations with us. This is the last post in a three-part series describing the presentations from our TCs. Having been…
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NCTE Comes to the CRWP: Scaling Mountains
On December 10, 2022, the Chippewa River Writing Project hosted a free continuity event: NCTE Comes to the CRWP. Teacher consultants from the CRWP who presented at the NCTE Annual Convention in November shared their presentations with us. This is the second post in a three-part series describing the presentations from our TCs. Sharing the…
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What Is an English Teacher’s Role During SSR?
This post is the second in a series designed to connect teachers’ remembered childhood and/or YA independent reading experiences and their current teaching practices to Jeff Wilhelm, Mike Smith, and Sharon Fransen’s new book, Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want and Why We Should Let Them. As a CMU English professor,…
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A Case for Graphic Novels in the ELA Classroom
Louis (Bud) Kanyo, is a CRWP 2009 Summer Institute Teacher Consultant who is currently a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. Bud is also an Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at Mid Michigan Community College. His dissertation research interests focus on comic texts and the cultural/educational stigma often associated with them. The following interview connects…
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Guiding Student Writers as They Work with Digital Tools
If asking students to develop their voice, stamina, and range of techniques as writers isn’t hard enough, we now have a variety of devices, websites, and apps that students want to use in order to enhance their writing. From Google Docs to Prezis to whatever new app will come out tomorrow, we know that students…
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Camp WoW ME (World of Writing, Multimedia Enhanced)
July 17, 2014 As we begin our fourth day of summer writing camp, there is already a sense of foreboding in the room – a little tension building with the anticipation of tomorrow’s impending goodbyes. Things are quiet as everyone focuses on their last piece of (new) writing, having browsed a collection of sites to…