Tag: reflections
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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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Alligator in the Classroom
This is the second in a series of posts about inquiry-based learning in the first grade classroom. In my last blog post I wrote about the day a student’s dad surprised my first grade class with a preserved alligator head. The surprise developed into an inquiry project through which my students had the opportunity to…
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Celebrating Our First Five Years
For teachers affiliated with the Chippewa River Writing Project, a picnic celebrating our accomplishments in the first five years marked the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year. Teachers from the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 summer institutes joined together to reflect on our accomplishments and look ahead to the future.…
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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…
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Remembered Reading
Connecting Positive YA Memories to Reading Unbound, The Book Whisperer, and Our Students This post is the first 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…
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Flipping English Classrooms: Grammar Instruction
Flipping has not come easily for me. I had to make sure it was going to fit my teaching situation. As a language arts teacher, I had to figure out just how I was going to flip the instruction within my classroom. The English world is a bit more complicated in terms of flipped instruction.…