One of my favorite co-teachers is "throwing out all the boring stuff" and starting off the school year writing genre fiction with her 6th graders! She asked for an opening writing prompt and this is what I made for her:
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May 15, 2022
One of my favorite co-teachers is "throwing out all the boring stuff" and starting off the school year writing genre fiction with her 6th graders! She asked for an opening writing prompt and this is what I made for her:
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When we moved to remote learning, I was fortunate enough to be working in a handful of classrooms. I got to teach my genre fiction unit with 6th graders and a brand new narrative non-fiction unit with 7th graders. What I learned, alongside my brave and wonderful co-teachers, is that relationships and the option for complex thinking instead of busywork, created decent conditions for engagement. And 
As a Language Arts teacher and a teacher writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about writing. I spend even more time testing out lesson ideas in classrooms with many different ages and configurations of students. Once I have a good idea with lots of positive student response, I present that idea to my fellow educators in their buildings and districts, but also at state and national conferences. Because 
