It's Essay Writing "season" and every year it becomes obvious that essay writing is not my students' favorite thing to do. I think this is because, in the past, they have had to essay after essay after essay... However, that is not all that productive and it just makes kids dis…
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2022 has been quite a year! With so many long-term effects from the C-vid years, education has had to make some amazing twists and turns to keep up. It can be fun to look back and see what has been important to teachers like us so, let's look back ! The top 3 most popular posts on this blo…
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My school recently learned that it was selected to be a pilot school for the new state essay writing test. It would be fine if we had known that from the beginning, but instead, we were told to focus on just the reading aspects as this was a new year for the new reading standards and reading tes…
As a special needs teacher, I am often asked what ideas I have for making content accessible for struggling students. And essay writing is the most asked-about topic of them all. I think students think of writing as complete and utter drudgery because they just don't get it. Many times teac…