alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good very bad day

we've all had days like this...great mentor text by Judith Viorst

writing workshop for middle school-a guide

http://corbettharrison.com/documents/Writing_Workshop.pdf

I follow Corbett Harrison on his website, WritingFix, which has wonderful lessons for using mentor texts and implementing the reading and writing workshop model, this guide is a straight forward guide for upper elementary and middle school teachers who incorporate the writer's notebook...and more!

Leveling Books

Great source for leveling books!!

http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/

Indent!!

since september i have been deeply immersed in the reading and writing workshop at my school.  Thanks to hurricane sandy, I'm stuck at home but I haven't stopped working.  I found this great teacher blog from staff developers at The Reading and Writing Workshop at Teachers college.  Great explicit lessons to get our students to stretch their writing:

http://kateandmaggie.wordpress.com/

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