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Because we have to be back at school this summer during the second week of August this upcoming year, Dena and I created/finalized an August Writer's Notebook Bingo Card over the last two weeks.  If you already purchased a copy of our Bingo Card set, you should have just received an e-mail with a link to freely download the new August Bingo Card.  Contact me at…

Create and collect interesting story titles for some summertime writing.,  That's this month's writing lesson.  Click here to access the lesson…

The "Mr. Stick of the Year" contest has begun in my classroom.  How about yours?  Click here for…

This month, my kiddos are working on Song Parodies, which they always love in springtime for some reason.  Enjoy this online lesson!

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We're celebrating collective nouns in my classroom this April.  I invite you to join us with this fun little lesson Dena and I invented as a word-game on car-trips.

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Woo-hoo!  The entire set of 300+ Sacred Writing PowerPoint Slides is complete, and if you are a subscriber, you should have now received the download link.  Thanks for your continued patience.  You have no idea how happy we are to have this…

This lesson starts out as a fun writer's notebook prompt but then can be turned into a rough draft for a writer's workshop piece that your students (especially your reluctant boy writers) will love.

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March 14 is "Pi Day," and our team always celebrates in every core class.  This writer's notebook lesson is designed to complement the math content with a structured poetry lesson.  Enjoy!  

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For those of you subscribed to the Sacred Writing Time Powerpoint Slides this year, the final set (April 1-June 15) will be ready soon.  We've got some really good slides coming.

Here's a really cool idea that Wisconsin middle school teacher, Julie McCarragher sent me.  Her students have been using the slides, and they designed their own set for…

Thanks again for your patience as we moved the website to a new server to handle the increase of traffic the site has experienced.  We are now back on track and will again be posting the new lessons on the first of every…

We spent time in December improving on vocabulary ideas we began exploring with my September "Lesson of the Month:" Creating a Classroom of Logophiles.  I'm thrilled to say that my September lesson has absolutely become the best-reviewed lesson posted at my site in the last year, and…

I'm still having trouble moving the website to its new server.  My website now officially exists in two places (one, an old limited server, and the other, a new server that will be able to handle much more traffic and bandwidth).  Can I figure out how to move the traffic to the new server from the old.  Nope.

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Based on last year's Newberry-Medal winner, this month's lesson helps students use more action verbs in their writing.  Enjoy Fetching the…

Our first "Lesson of the Month" for this new school year is up and running.  Feel free to share the "Creating a Classroom of Logophiles" lesson with any of your teaching…

August 27 is our first day back!  During my first week, to set my students up for introducing September's Lesson of the Month during week two, we will be creating a new "Presenting Me!" lesson that…

Math/Writing Teacher extraordinaire--Holly Young--published her first book this spring, impressing the socks off her math students.  Her …

In Northern Nevada, as part of the implementation of Common Core Standards, we are busily designing interdisciplinary units of study to use in September.  As a result, we are featuring HistoryFix,…

A great poetry lesson, by NNWP's Denise Gallues, is our writing lesson of the month.  Check out Poems to Bug Your Reader at…

Rhyming Slogans Across the Curriculum is this Month's Writer's Notebook Prompt of the Month. …